make showtable more lenient

and support e.g. Arrays

Author: pfitzseb

src/TableView.jl

@@ -20,8 +20,12 @@ to_css_size(s::AbstractString) = s
 to_css_size(s::Real) = "$(s)px"
 
 function showtable(table; dark = false, height = :auto, width = "100%")
-    if !Tables.istable(typeof(table))
-        throw(ArgumentError("Argument is not a table."))
+    if !Tables.istable(table)
+        try
+            table = Tables.table(table)
+        catch err
+            throw(ArgumentError("Argument is not a table."))
+        end
     end
 
     tablelength = Base.IteratorSize(table) == Base.HasLength() ? length(Tables.rows(table)) : nothing

test/runtests.jl

@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ end
     ]
     @test showtable(nttable) isa WebIO.Scope
 end
+@testset "normal array" begin
+    array = rand(10, 10)
+    @test showtable(array) isa WebIO.Scope
+end