Detect if attached to a tty standard output when calling Table.printstd().

Printing using term (for colors, etc...) is performed only if output is a tty, else, fallbacks to normal printing

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0230746..d0a1325 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ name = "prettytable"
 unicode-width = "^0.1"

 term = "^0.4"

 lazy_static = "^0.1"

+atty = "^0.1"

diff --git a/src/format.rs b/src/format.rs
index c4b874e..c9546b7 100644
--- a/src/format.rs
+++ b/src/format.rs
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ impl Default for TableFormat {
 	}

 }

 

-/// A builder to create a `Table Format`

+/// A builder to create a `TableFormat`

 pub struct FormatBuilder {

 	format: Box<TableFormat>

 }

diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 7e373e1..b2e77e2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 //! A formatted and aligned table printer written in rust

 extern crate unicode_width;

 extern crate term;

+extern crate atty;

 #[macro_use] extern crate lazy_static;

 

 use std::io;

@@ -147,9 +148,9 @@ impl <'a> TableSlice<'a> {
 	/// # Panic

 	/// Panic if writing to standard output fails

 	pub fn printstd(&self) {

-		let r = match stdout() {

-			Some(mut o) => self.print_term(&mut *o),

-			None => self.print(&mut io::stdout()),

+		let r = match (stdout(), atty::is()) {

+			(Some(mut o), true) => self.print_term(&mut *o),

+			_ => self.print(&mut io::stdout()),

 		};

 		if let Err(e) = r {

 			panic!("Cannot print table to standard output : {}", e);