1399782 - Pasting a JSON object in DevTools Console should show as console.log

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 972530

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Andrei Petcu]

Attachment: console.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170913220121

Steps to reproduce:

Open devtolls console and paste this
{a:"test", b:5}


Actual results:

It displayed an error. "SyntaxError: missing ; before statement"


Expected results:

It should have displayed a nice object just like if I were to type

console.log({a:"test", b:5})

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Hello Andrei,

I'm sure there is a bug somewhere for that.
The problem is that we evaluate what's entered in the console input, and `{var a = 2; b = a * 2}` is a valid block in Javascript.
We could detect that we have an object, and if so, log it, like Chrome does.

In the meantime, as a workaround you can wrap your json inside parenthesis, i.e. `({a: "test"})`