continue work on testing using 'any' in GUI PB

README.md

@@ -1,27 +1,11 @@
 // Copyright 2025 WIT.COM Inc Licensed GPL 3.0
 
-// you can replace all of COBOL with this amount of GO
-
 // ah yes, COBOL. what an ancient throwback. for those that know
 // then you know exactly what is in this file. For those that don't, here it is:
 
 // All this does is output human readable text formatted to be viewable on
 // a console with a fixed with font. AKA: a typerwriter. Which is exactly
-// what COBOL did in the 1970's (60s? notsure) And the 80s.
+// what COBOL did in the 1970's (60s? notsure). And the 80s.
 
-// So, you want to dump out stuff on the console. Let's see. Something like
-
-/*
-	forge --favorites
-
-	go.wit.com/apps/myapp          v0.2.0     (installed)
-	go.wit.com/lib/somethingfun    v0.0.7     (not downloaded)
-*/
-
-// anyway, you get the idea. This is also called COBOL because it does
-// truncate every line output to the columns you see with stty -a
-// my monitor is huge, so it's not going to work at 80x24. 160x48 is better
-// actually, I'd predict some of these will probably end up 240 wide
-// long live good eyesight and 4K monitors!
-
-// TODO: fix this to truncate with stty cols width
+// Perl, before GO, was great for this kinda thing. GO with
+// protobuffers is even better

tablePB.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/guipb"
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/anypb"
+	"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/timestamppb"
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/wrapperspb"
 )
 
@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@ func PrintTable(pb *guipb.Table) {
 	var sizes []int
 	for _, name := range pb.Order {
 		arg, attr, tmp := getColAttr(pb, name)
+		if attr == nil {
+			continue
+		}
 		HEIGHT = tmp
 		args = append(args, arg)
 		if attr.Width == 0 {
@@ -49,6 +53,11 @@ func PrintTable(pb *guipb.Table) {
 	for i := range HEIGHT {
 		var cells []string
 		for _, name := range pb.Order {
+			if val, ok := getAnyCell(pb, name, int(i)); ok {
+				h += 1
+				cells = append(cells, val)
+				continue
+			}
 			if val, ok := getTableCell(pb, name, int(i)); ok {
 				// log.Info("tree: CELL GOOD", pb.Title, name, w, h, val)
 				h += 1
@@ -112,6 +121,61 @@ func getTableCell(t *guipb.Table, name string, row int) (string, bool) {
 		s := shell.FormatDuration(time.Since(cellTime.AsTime()))
 		return s, true
 	}
+	for _, r := range t.AnyCols {
+		if name != r.Header.Name {
+			// log.Info("skip sint row:", r.Header.Name, "!=", name)
+			continue
+		}
+		// cellTime := r.Vals[row]
+		// s := shell.FormatDuration(time.Since(cellTime.AsTime()))
+		return "fixme", true
+	}
+	return "", false
+}
+
+func getAnyCell(t *guipb.Table, name string, row int) (string, bool) {
+	for _, col := range t.AnyCols {
+		if name != col.Header.Name {
+			// log.Info("skip sint row:", r.Header.Name, "!=", name)
+			continue
+		}
+		anyVal := col.Vals[row]
+
+		switch col.Attr.Type {
+		case guipb.ColAttr_STRING:
+			// return col.Vals[row] true
+		case guipb.ColAttr_INT:
+			var finalInt int32
+			// 1. Check if the Any contains an Int32Value
+			if anyVal.MessageIs(&wrapperspb.Int32Value{}) {
+				var intValue wrapperspb.Int32Value
+				// 2. Unmarshal into the wrapper
+				if err := anyVal.UnmarshalTo(&intValue); err == nil {
+					// 3. Get the native Go int32 from the wrapper
+					finalInt = intValue.GetValue()
+				}
+			}
+
+			return fmt.Sprintf("%d", finalInt), true
+		case guipb.ColAttr_DURATION:
+		case guipb.ColAttr_TIME:
+			var sout string
+			var tsProto timestamppb.Timestamp
+			if err := anyVal.UnmarshalTo(&tsProto); err == nil {
+				// It's a timestamp, now convert it back to a Go time.Time
+				goTime := tsProto.AsTime()
+				// fmt.Printf("Successfully unpacked timestamp: %v\n", goTime)
+				sout = shell.FormatDuration(time.Since(goTime))
+				return sout, true
+			}
+			return "", false
+		default:
+			log.Info("cell unhandled type", col.Attr.Type)
+		}
+		// cellTime := r.Vals[row]
+		// s := shell.FormatDuration(time.Since(cellTime.AsTime()))
+		return "fixme", true
+	}
 	return "", false
 }
 
@@ -144,5 +208,12 @@ func getColAttr(t *guipb.Table, name string) (string, *guipb.ColAttr, int) {
 		}
 		return r.Header.Name, r.Attr, len(r.Vals)
 	}
+	for _, r := range t.AnyCols {
+		if name != r.Header.Name {
+			// log.Info("skip sint row:", r.Header.Name, "!=", name)
+			continue
+		}
+		return r.Header.Name, r.Attr, len(r.Vals)
+	}
 	return "", nil, 0
 }