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nushell/crates/nu-command/src/commands/drop/column.rs
Andrés N. Robalino 19d5f782cc Allow dropping columns. (#3107)
`drop` is used for removing the last row. Passing a number allows dropping N rows.
Here we introduce the same logic for dropping columns instead.

You can certainly remove columns by using `reject`, however, there could be cases
where we are interested in removing columns from tables that contain, say, a big
number of columns. Using `reject` becomes impractical, especially when you don't
care about the column names that could either be known or not known when exploring
tables.

```
> echo [[lib, extension]; [nu-core, rs] [rake, rb]]
─────────┬───────────
   lib   │ extension
─────────┼───────────
 nu-core │ rs
 rake    │ rb
─────────┴───────────
```

```
> echo [[lib, extension]; [nu-core, rs] [rake, rb]] | drop column
─────────
   lib
─────────
 nu-core
 rake
─────────
```
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use crate::prelude::*;
use nu_data::base::select_fields;
use nu_engine::WholeStreamCommand;
use nu_errors::ShellError;
use nu_protocol::{ReturnSuccess, Signature, SyntaxShape};
use nu_source::Tagged;
pub struct SubCommand;
#[derive(Deserialize)]
pub struct Arguments {
columns: Option<Tagged<u64>>,
}
#[async_trait]
impl WholeStreamCommand for SubCommand {
fn name(&self) -> &str {
"drop column"
}
fn signature(&self) -> Signature {
Signature::build("drop column").optional(
"columns",
SyntaxShape::Number,
"starting from the end, the number of columns to remove",
)
}
fn usage(&self) -> &str {
"Remove the last number of columns. If you want to remove columns by name, try 'reject'."
}
async fn run(&self, args: CommandArgs) -> Result<OutputStream, ShellError> {
drop(args).await
}
fn examples(&self) -> Vec<Example> {
use nu_protocol::{row, Value};
vec![Example {
description: "Remove the last column of a table",
example: "echo [[lib, extension]; [nu-lib, rs] [nu-core, rb]] | drop column",
result: Some(vec![
row! { "lib".into() => Value::from("nu-lib") },
row! { "lib".into() => Value::from("nu-core") },
]),
}]
}
}
async fn drop(args: CommandArgs) -> Result<OutputStream, ShellError> {
let (Arguments { columns }, input) = args.process().await?;
let to_drop = if let Some(quantity) = columns {
*quantity as usize
} else {
1
};
Ok(input
.map(move |item| {
let headers = item.data_descriptors();
let descs = match headers.len() {
0 => &headers[..],
n if to_drop > n => &[],
n => &headers[..n - to_drop],
};
select_fields(&item, descs, item.tag())
})
.map(ReturnSuccess::value)
.to_output_stream())
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn examples_work_as_expected() -> Result<(), ShellError> {
use crate::examples::test as test_examples;
test_examples(SubCommand {})
}
}