Learn how to use Category Formatter.

Category

Category formatter will help you to prepare data for any (reasonable) charging library that displays category-like type of data. Think of bar/column or pie charts.

format method accepts a block where key and value variables are available. You can use this to format key string into desired version as well as value into its final format. It needs to return an array of [key, value] in their final form. These two are then used to sum value under specific key. The choice is yours!

series = Trifle::Stats.series(...)
=> #<Trifle::Stats::Series:0x0000ffffa14256e8 @series={:at=>[2024-03-22 19:38:00 +0000, 2024-03-22 19:39:00 +0000], :values=>[{events: {count: 42, sum: 2184}}, {events: {count: 33, sum: 1553}}]}>

default_data = series.format.category(path: 'events')
=> {"count" => 0.75e2, "sum" => 0.3737e4}

formatted_data = series.format.category(path: 'events') do |key, value|
  [key.to_s.upcase, value.to_i]
end
=> {"COUNT" => 75, "SUM" => 3737}

Note: path is a list of keys joined by dot. Ie orders.shipped.count would represent value at {orders: { shipped: { count: ... } } }.

And thats it. Now you prepared series for plotting your categories.

Note: You may have noticed that category formatter gives you basically same output as running sum aggregator over each key of the branch. Do with that what you want.