From 191e99f0b55c3bd25ef29143aba11255ae15c2ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VorTechnix <45538536+VorTechnix@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:39:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactored table_tosting

---
 .../utils/tables/table_tostring.lua             | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/worldeditadditions/utils/tables/table_tostring.lua b/worldeditadditions/utils/tables/table_tostring.lua
index 4a13586..da6778e 100644
--- a/worldeditadditions/utils/tables/table_tostring.lua
+++ b/worldeditadditions/utils/tables/table_tostring.lua
@@ -2,16 +2,27 @@
 -- @param	tbl	table	input table
 -- @param	sep	string	key value seperator
 -- @param	new_line	string	key value pair delimiter
+-- @param	max_depth	number	max recursion depth (optional)
 -- @return	string	concatenated table pairs
-local function table_tostring(tbl, sep, new_line)
+local function table_tostring(tbl, sep, new_line, max_depth)
 	if type(sep) ~= "string" then sep = ": " end
 	if type(new_line) ~= "string" then new_line = ", " end
+	if type(max_depth) == "number" then max_depth = {depth=0,max=max_depth}
+	elseif type(max_depth) ~= "table" then max_depth = {depth=0,max=5} end
 	local ret = {}
 	if type(tbl) ~= "table" then return "Error: input not table!" end
 	for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
-		table.insert(ret,tostring(key) .. sep .. tostring(value) .. new_line)
+		if type(value) == "table" and max_depth.depth < max_depth.max then
+			table.insert(ret,tostring(key) .. sep ..
+			"{" .. table_tostring(value,sep,new_line,{max_depth.depth+1,max_depth.max}) .. "}")
+		else
+			table.insert(ret,tostring(key) .. sep .. tostring(value))
+		end
 	end
-	return table.concat(ret,"")
+	return table.concat(ret,new_line)
 end
 
+-- Test:
+-- /lua v1 = { x= 0.335, facing= { axis= "z", sign= -1 } }; print(worldeditadditions.table.tostring(v1))
+
 return table_tostring