Module [examples]

[nevrome]

When playing with the tool as it is right now time and time again I found myself wondering which columns are available in which tables.

I suggest to add a module [overview] which returns a list of column names and example column content for a given entity.

./sidora.R overview -t site

site.Id: 1, 2, 6
site.Site_Id: BDB, VLI, UNS
site.Full_Site_Id: Bad Dörrblödel, Vligenpilz, Unsepork
....

[jfy133]

Not a bad idea. We could also optionally display the help/tool tip descriptions, as well as the examples to give a better idea what exactly the field describes?

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[nevrome]

@jfy133 and @TCLamnidis Check out the new modules help and glance. Although not well polished these make using the cli much more convenient imho

[jfy133]

Oooh I like it! I would like to re-write the -h/--help a bit, I find this notation very strange:

|[view], [summarise], [list], [tabulate], [glance]|

and I'm concerned that the 'help' module is not the same as --help and -h, I think that could be confusing. What about example or examples instead?

Glance is cool though (but unclear what the usecase is)

[nevrome]

Hm - ok - fair enough.

1. examples sounds alright to me.
2. Do you have an idea for a better notation in the help file? The argparser package is pretty limited in terms of text formatting unfortunately.
3. The point of glance is to look up column names and column content structure. This module is for everybody but you, because you are the only user who has all column names of Pandora memorized down to the last underscore 😛

[jfy133]

Further comment, for glance

We could have a -v / --verbose flag (or -d and --detailed) that lists the tooltips, as described here: https://mpi-dokuwiki1.server.shh.mpg.de/doku.php?id=general:pandora:field_definitions (MPI VPN required)

[nevrome]

See #18