Feature/format UI components

[Zykino]

Add ways to serialize/format ui components instead of only proposing print options.

I can remove the first commit if you want, but it did not work on my PC without it:

1. rust -vV error when using the "previous" rust toolchain.
2. protoc complain that optional is an experimental feature of the syntax3.

I also changed the interface to borrow the Text elements instead of owning it, so it can be reused.

I had some reflection on the ribbon: plugin developers will often want to have multiples of them in a row, so accepting an into_iter sounded nicer.
I also wanted to have a possibility to color the full line with the background color, but I’m not sure how to get the bg color from the user’s theme.

Note: I changed the session plugin as needed and others, but I did not run everything plugin before/after. However I did not see obvious breakage in the "after" state.

[Zykino]

Thinking about it again, I kind of want to have an SerializeAnsi trait that requires the equivalent of serialize_text_with_coordinates and serialize_text. Maybe another equivalent trait for iterable (useful for ribbon’s line and nested list’s view, maybe even tables?).

But in the same time I’m not sure it will help format/print elements. It may be too much into the "gui framework" side, which is apparently already hard to do (at least in rust).

What do you think ?

PS: I’m thinking of having SerializeAnsi be some trait that do the same as the Display trait. But in some sense having some setCursorPosition struct that once used with the trait don’t Display anything but move the cursor at the correct position. This let peoples creating an iterator of dyn SerializeAnsi that alternately display thing then move the cursor.

[imsnif]

Hey @Zykino - sorry for taking so long to get to this and thanks for your patience!

Any chance we can weed this down to just adding a simple serialization interface? I appreciate the thought you put into code reuse as well as improving existing build issues and such, but I have to minimize the surface of changes due to the size of this project and the burden of maintainership. Thanks for understanding.

[Zykino]

• I removed the compilation commit (kept it in my fork so I can re-use it if needed).
• Transformed the print_* function to take &references so we don’t need to clone elements if we want to use print them multiples times
• Add serialize_* equivalent function that returns Strings
• For the ribbon, I think it is interesting to give multiples items and print them in a line (like for the table, and the nested list), so I added serialize_ribbon_line*
• Fixed the compilation where it now needs reference

[imsnif]

hi @Zykino - thanks for your work and efforts on this. Can we please change this to just add the serialization interface without changing anything else?

[imsnif]

Thanks for this and for the changes!