Custom MarkdownExporter

[nietras]

I'm trying to avoid the GitHub MarkdownExporter highlighting certain rows using Bold. Looking at source code there is an option:

BenchmarkDotNet/src/BenchmarkDotNet/Exporters/MarkdownExporter.cs

Line 81 in d058c7b

[PublicAPI] protected MarkdownHighlightStrategy StartOfGroupHighlightStrategy = MarkdownHighlightStrategy.None;

However, there is no way to set this or override. Additionally, one cannot simple create a sub-class for customization as the ctor is private.

BenchmarkDotNet/src/BenchmarkDotNet/Exporters/MarkdownExporter.cs

Line 89 in d058c7b

private MarkdownExporter() { }

Could this not be opened up? So one can reuse these parts?

Are there other ways of avoiding the bolding, and how can I in code get the file names of exported reports?

[timcassell]

Making the ctor protected (as well as the Dialect) to make it extensible seems reasonable to me.

[adamsitnik]

We could also introduce a method that creates a copy of the current exporter with given strategy, so the users would not need to derive a custom type just to change one thing:

config.AddExporter(MarkdownExporter.GitHub.With(MarkdownHighlightStrategy.None))

[nietras]

That could perhaps be a supplemental issue/proposal.