674493 - Improve console.* methods

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Comment 1

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

Attachment: Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/209

Pointer to Github pull-request

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Irakli: can you explain the reasoning behind this bug and the value of the fix?

Comment 3

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

Sure!

I spend a lot of time while developing inspecting various things I'm working with using console.log or similar. Unfortunately it's pretty much useless though as only thing I get is "[object Object]". So usually I end up going through all my console.* calls replacing it with something like:

console.log(Object.keys(value).map(function(key) key + ':' + value[key]).join('\n'))

This change improves console.* methods so that output dumped is far more informative.

console.log(Object.create({ a: 'a' }, {
  b: { value: function b(a, b) {
     // some source
  }}
}) 

prints something like

{ // [object Object]
  b: function b(a, b) { .... } // readable writable enumerable
  __proto__: {
    a: 'a'    // readable writable enumerable
  }
}

Comment 4

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

It terms of value it would save a lot of time at least for me and I'd expect others as well.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 548737 [details]
Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/209

The full review is in the pull request.  Significant issues include:

1. lack of license headers;
2. lack of commentary;
3. exceptions being red-on-red.

Comment 6

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(Pushing all open bugs to the --- milestone for the new triage system)

Comment 7

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

This that we use devtools console this is obsolete.