Tree Exporter

The tree exporter wraps Anytree RenderTree. Additionally it can include information you are interested in of the VSSData of every node. By default, the rendered tree will only print node names. The output file specified via --output/-o will be a simple text file containing the rendered tree.

Example:

Vehicle:
  type: branch
  description: Vehicle

Vehicle.Door:
  type: branch
  description: Door
  instances:
  - Row[1,2]
  - Column[1,2]

Vehicle.Door.Row1.Column1:
  custom: foo

Result:

Vehicle
└── Door
    ├── Row1
    │   ├── Column1
    │   └── Column2
    └── Row2
        ├── Column1
        └── Column2

If we also want to see the description of every node we can pass --attr description.

Result:

Vehicle
description='Vehicle'
└── Door
    description='Door'
    ├── Row1
    │   description='Door'
    │   ├── Column1
    │   │   description='Door'
    │   └── Column2
    │       description='Door'
    └── Row2
        description='Door'
        ├── Column1
        │   description='Door'
        └── Column2
            description='Door'

If we also want to show the custom attribute custom we can add another -a custom.

Result:

Vehicle
description='Vehicle'
└── Door
    description='Door'
    ├── Row1
    │   description='Door'
    │   ├── Column1
    │   │   description='Door'
    │   │   custom='foo'
    │   └── Column2
    │       description='Door'
    └── Row2
        description='Door'
        ├── Column1
        │   description='Door'
        └── Column2
            description='Door'