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🎨 HTML Formatter Enhancement

This PR introduces a comprehensive HTML formatter that significantly improves the user experience for API comparison reports.

✨ Key Features

πŸ” Rich HTML Reports

  • Professional UI design with modern styling and gradients
  • Mobile-responsive layout with proper breakpoints
  • Interactive elements for better user experience
  • Syntax-highlighted code signatures

βš™οΈ Configuration Context

  • Collapsible configuration section showing all settings that affect comparison results
  • Displays filters, mappings, exclusions, and breaking change rules
  • Helps users understand why certain results appear in the report
  • Proper formatting for complex configuration structures

πŸ“ Enhanced File Output

  • New parameter for saving reports to files
  • Validation requiring output files for non-console formats
  • Separates formatted reports from log output for better usability

🎯 Improved Metadata Layout

  • Card-based design for assembly information
  • Better handling of long assembly file paths
  • Cleaner statistics display with proper visual hierarchy
  • Fixed configuration section layout to prevent text wrapping

πŸŽ›οΈ Interactive Elements

  • Collapsible signature details for API members
  • Toggle buttons for configuration sections
  • Smooth transitions and hover effects
  • JavaScript-powered interactivity

πŸ”§ Technical Improvements

  • Configuration Integration: Updates configuration object with actual command-line options used
  • Responsive Design: CSS Grid and Flexbox layouts that work on all screen sizes
  • Type Safety: Proper enum conversion for ReportFormat
  • Error Handling: Validation for required parameters

πŸ“‹ Files Changed

    • New comprehensive HTML formatter
    • Added output file parameter and configuration updates
    • Added configuration property
    • Integrated HTML formatter
    • Updated service registration

πŸ§ͺ Testing

The HTML formatter has been tested with real assembly comparisons and produces professional, readable reports that provide much better context than the previous console-only output.

πŸ“– Usage

# Generate HTML report saved to file
dotnet run -- compare assembly1.dll assembly2.dll --output html --output-file report.html

# Configuration section shows all settings affecting the comparison
# Interactive elements allow drilling down into signature details

This enhancement makes the tool much more user-friendly and provides the necessary context to understand comparison results.

- Add comprehensive HtmlFormatter with rich styling and interactive features
- Add collapsible configuration section showing filters, mappings, exclusions, and breaking change rules
- Add --output-file parameter with validation requiring files for non-console formats
- Improve HTML metadata section layout with card-based design for better readability
- Update configuration handling to reflect actual command-line options used
- Add responsive CSS design and JavaScript interactivity for signature details
- Fix breaking change rules section layout to prevent text wrapping

Features:
- Professional HTML reports with modern UI design
- Interactive collapsible sections for signatures and configuration
- Proper display of assembly metadata with long file paths
- Configuration context showing all settings that affect the comparison results
- Mobile-responsive layout with proper breakpoints
- Fixed validation logic to only require --output-file for HTML format
- Fixed execution logic to support console output for JSON/Markdown formats
- Added publish/ folder to .gitignore to exclude build artifacts
- All integration tests now pass successfully
@jbrinkman jbrinkman merged commit f2c26d5 into main Jul 26, 2025
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@jbrinkman jbrinkman deleted the feature/html-formatter-with-configuration branch July 26, 2025 21:02
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