891431 - Giving a name to objects logged using console.log()

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

jonathanj noted on IRC that if you've done console.log(obj), you can see the "[object Object]" in the console, you can click on it and view and edit properties, but you can't use JS to ask questions about it. You can't call its methods, or check to see if it's the same object as some other object, because it doesn't have a name.

He suggested, when you right-click on the console.log output, a "Send to Scratchpad" option.

msucan suggested a "Pin Object" option that would give that object a number,
and then you could refer to it as $0 or $1 or something in the console.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

I think we can close this as we have a similar mechanism in the console now: you can right click on an object and select `Store as global variable`, which will give you a way to play with said object.