proposal to output more than one tables

[Mikhail]

Cliff provides great ways to draw table about one object (Show) or many equals objects. (List)
But, sometimes I have a difficult JSON that would be better to split into two or many tables.
For example, I have a daemon that fetches a data from services. Daemon provides API for getting information about current fetcher state (is fetching already started) and history (when was running)
A simple example of the answer:

{
  "current_fetches": {
    "monitoring": false,
    "storage": false,
  },
  "last_fetches": [
    {
      "date": "2017-08-01T12:00:00",
      "service": "monitoring"
    },
    {
      "date": "2017-08-01T12:00:00",
      "service": "storage"
    }
  ]
}

Would be great to draw like

+-------+------------+
| Field | Value |
+------------+-------+
| storage | false |
| monitoring | false |
+------------+-------+
+---------------------+------------+
| date | service |
+---------------------+------------+
| 2017-08-01T12:00:00 | monitoring |
| 2017-08-01T12:00:00 | storage |
+---------------------+------------+

But I haven't found a way to draw more than 1 table.

[Mikhail (objque)]

Now I have a custom command class that inherits from cliff.Command and cliff.TableFormatter.
This solution works fine for me, but I've lost possibility call different formatters

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

I think using the custom command and formatter is the expected way to do this, although I can see how it's not as ideal if you consider some of the standard formatters to still be useful.

Can you think of a generic way to express the idea that there might be multiple tables in a given set of output? If so, maybe we could have the show command class choose between a table and a "multi-table" formatter somehow.