Support MATLAB R2024a.

Author: rashedmyt

img/tables_after_r2024a.png

@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ This package has some constraints and limitations:
 
 * MATLAB notebooks and MATLAB files do not autoindent after `case` statements.
 
+* **For MATLAB R2024a and later,** tables are displayed as ASCII instead of HTML if the table meets any of the below conditions. Note that the below list is not exhaustive.
+    * is an empty table
+    * has more than 1000 rows
+    * has more than 100 columns
+    * has nested/grouped headers
+    * has multi-column variables
+    * is an event table
+    * is a dataset
+
 ----
 
 Copyright 2023 The MathWorks, Inc.

img/tables_before_r2024a.png

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Click on `MATLAB Kernel` to create a Jupyter notebook for MATLAB.
 
 |Jupyter Notebook| JupyterLab |
 |--|--|
-|<p align="center"><img width="200" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/classic-jupyter.png"></p> | <p align="center"><img width="500" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/jupyterlab-notebook-section.png"></p> |
+|<p align="center"><img width="200" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/classic-jupyter-kernel.png"></p> | <p align="center"><img width="500" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/jupyterlab_kernel_icon.png"></p> |
 
 ## Architecture
 
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ Click on `MATLAB Kernel` to create a Jupyter notebook for MATLAB.
     * Inline static plot images
     * LaTeX representation for symbolic expressions
 * **For MATLAB R2022b and later:** Local functions can be defined at the end of a cell for use in the same cell
-    ![cellLocalFunctions](https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/blob/main/img/local_functions.png)
+    <p><img src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/local_functions.png"></p>
+* **For MATLAB R2024a and later:** Tables are formatted using HTML instead of ASCII
+    | Before R2024a | After R2024a |
+    |--|--|
+    |<p align="center"><img width="550" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/tables_before_r2024a.png"></p> | <p align="center"><img width="500" src="https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy/raw/main/img/tables_after_r2024a.png"></p> |
 
 ## Limitations
 Please refer to this [README](https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy#limitations) file for a listing of the current limitations. 

limitations.md

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
     switch matlab.internal.editor.getApiVersion('synchronous')
         case 1
             request = updateRequestFromVersion1(request, code);
+        case 2
+            request = updateRequestFromVersion2(request, code);
         otherwise
             error("Invalid API version. Create an issue at https://github.com/mathworks/jupyter-matlab-proxy for further support.");
     end
@@ -95,6 +97,13 @@
 request.shouldResetState = false;
 request.shouldDoFullCleanup = false;
 
+% Helper function to update fields in the request when LiveEditor API version is 2.
+function request = updateRequestFromVersion2(request, code)
+request = updateRequestFromVersion1(request, code);
+
+% Request MIME based outputs.
+request.preferBasicOutputs = true;
+
 % Helper function to process different types of outputs given by LiveEditor API.
 function result = processOutputs(outputs)
 result =cell(1,length(outputs));
@@ -141,6 +150,8 @@
                 end
                 result{idx} = processFigure(outputData.figureImage);
             end
+        case 'text/html'
+            result{ii} = processHtml(outputData);
     end
 end
 
@@ -185,7 +196,7 @@
 end
 text = sprintf("%s = %s%s%s", output.name, output.header, indentation, output.value);
 result = processText(text);
-    
+
 % Helper function for post-processing symbolic outputs. The captured output
 % contains MathML representation of symbolic expressions. Since Jupyter and
 % GitHub have native support for LaTeX, we use EquationRenderer JS API to
@@ -252,6 +263,12 @@
 result.value = {result.value};
 result.type = 'execute_result';
 
+% Helper function for processing text/html mime-type outputs.
+function result = processHtml(text)
+result.type = 'execute_result';
+result.mimetype = {"text/html", "text/plain"};
+result.value = [sprintf("%s",text), text];
+
 % Helper function to notify browser page load finished
 function pageLoadCallback(~,~,idler)
 idler.stopIdling();