1332011 - Investigate usage of reps/object inspector in new webconsole

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1308566

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P2)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

For the new console frontend, we want to use debugger.html object inspector to replace the variables view.

We will use the object inspector when logging objects, so that we can expand them and see their content from inside the console. But what about simpler types of objects, such as strings, numbers etc... 

Is the object inspector able to render primitive types? If not should, should it be able to do so?

If the object inspector becomes some kind of UI component for reps, should it move to the reps repository? This way it would be delivered to mc through the reps bundle.

Otherwise what's the plan to retrieve it and use it in the console?

The goal of this bug is to define the usage of object inspector in the console, as well as how we will integrate it. New console frontend features that rely on using the Object Inspector should use this bug as blocker.

Comment 1

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

In the netmonitor, we use the tree-table component, which may be a better fit.

Comment 2

[Tom Tromey :tromey]

I think this is a dup.