inspect-x

inspect-x

An implementation of node's ES6 inspect module. Return a string representation of object, which is useful for debugging. An optional options object may be passed that alters certain aspects of the formatted string:

• showHidden - if true then the object's non-enumerable and symbol properties will be shown too. Defaults to false.
• depth - tells inspect how many times to recurse while formatting the object. This is useful for inspecting large complicated objects. Defaults to 2. To make it recurse indefinitely pass null.
• colors - if true, then the output will be styled with ANSI color codes. Defaults to false. Colors are customizable, see below.
• customInspect - if false, then custom inspect(depth, opts) functions defined on the objects being inspected won't be called. Defaults to true.

Customizing inspect colors

Color output (if enabled) of inspect is customizable globally via `inspect.styles` and `inspect.colors` objects.

The inspect.styles is a map assigning each style a color from inspect.colors. Highlighted styles and their default values are:

• number (yellow)
• boolean (yellow)
• string (green)
• date (magenta)
• regexp (red)
• null (bold)
• undefined (grey)
• special - only function at this time (cyan)
• name (intentionally no styling)

Predefined color codes are:

• white
• grey
• black
• blue
• cyan
• green
• magenta
• red
• yellow.

There are also:

• bold
• italic
• underline
• inverse

Custom inspect() function on Objects

Objects also may define their own `inspect(depth)` function which `inspect` will invoke and use the result of when inspecting the object.

You may also return another Object entirely, and the returned String will be formatted according to the returned Object. This is similar to how JSON.stringify() works.

ECMAScript compatibility shims for legacy JavaScript engines

`es5-shim.js` monkey-patches a JavaScript context to contain all EcmaScript 5 methods that can be faithfully emulated with a legacy JavaScript engine.

es5-sham.js monkey-patches other ES5 methods as closely as possible. For these methods, as closely as possible to ES5 is not very close. Many of these shams are intended only to allow code to be written to ES5 without causing run-time errors in older engines. In many cases, this means that these shams cause many ES5 methods to silently fail. Decide carefully whether this is what you want. Note: es5-sham.js requires es5-shim.js to be able to work properly.

json3.js monkey-patches the EcmaScript 5 JSON implimentation faithfully.

es6.shim.js provides compatibility shims so that legacy JavaScript engines behave as closely as possible to ECMAScript 6 (Harmony).

See: https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options
Version: 1.0.8
Author: Xotic750 [e-mail]
License: MIT
Copyright: Xotic750
Example

var util = require('inspect-x');

var obj = { name: 'nate' };
obj.inspect = function(depth) {
  return '{' + this.name + '}';
};

inspect(obj);
  // "{nate}"

var obj = { foo: 'this will not show up in the inspect() output' };
obj.inspect = function(depth) {
  return { bar: 'baz' };
};

inspect(obj);
  // "{ bar: 'baz' }"

module.exports ⇒ string ⏏

Echos the value of a value. Trys to print the value out in the best way possible given the different types. Values may supply their own custom inspect(depth, opts) functions, when called they receive the current depth in the recursive inspection, as well as the options object passed to inspect.

Kind: Exported member
Returns: string - The string representation.

Param	Type	Description
obj	Object	The object to print out.
[opts]	Object	Options object that alters the output.

Example

var inspect = require('inspect-x');

console.log(inspect(inspect, { showHidden: true, depth: null }));
//{ [Function: inspect]
//  [length]: 2,
//  [name]: 'inspect',
//  [prototype]: inspect { [constructor]: [Circular] },
//  [colors]:
//   { [bold]: [ 1, 22, [length]: 2 ],
//     [italic]: [ 3, 23, [length]: 2 ],
//     [underline]: [ 4, 24, [length]: 2 ],
//     [inverse]: [ 7, 27, [length]: 2 ],
//     [white]: [ 37, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [grey]: [ 90, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [black]: [ 30, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [blue]: [ 34, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [cyan]: [ 36, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [green]: [ 32, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [magenta]: [ 35, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [red]: [ 31, 39, [length]: 2 ],
//     [yellow]: [ 33, 39, [length]: 2 ] },
//  [styles]:
//   { [special]: 'cyan',
//     [number]: 'yellow',
//     [boolean]: 'yellow',
//     [undefined]: 'grey',
//     [null]: 'bold',
//     [string]: 'green',
//     [symbol]: 'green',
//     [date]: 'magenta',
//     [regexp]: 'red' } }