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@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ The objective here is human understanding (i.e. for debugging), not serializatio
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Examples of use
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===============
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`inspect` has the following declaration: `str = inspect(value, <options>)`.
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`value` can be any Lua value. `inspect` transforms simple types (like strings or numbers) into strings. Tables, on the other
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hand, are rendered in a way a human can undersand.
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"Array-like" tables are rendered horizontally:
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inspect({1,2,3,4}) == "{ 1, 2, 3, 4 }"
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@ -38,27 +43,7 @@ Tables can be nested, and will be indented with two spaces per level.
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}
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}]]
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`inspect`'s second parameter allows controlling the maximum depth that will be printed out. When the max depth is reached, it'll just return `{...}`:
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local t5 = {a = {b = {c = {d = {e = 5}}}}}
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inspect(t5, 4) == [[{
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a = {
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b = {
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c = {
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d = {...}
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}
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}
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}
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}]]
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inspect(t5, 2) == [[{
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a = {
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b = {...}
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}
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}]])
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Functions, userdata and threads are simply rendered as `<function x>`, `<userdata x>` and `<thread x>` respectively:
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Functions, userdata and any other custom types from Luajit are simply as `<function x>`, `<userdata x>`, etc.:
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inspect({ f = print, ud = some_user_data, thread = a_thread} ) == [[{
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f = <function 1>,
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@ -84,6 +69,50 @@ If the table has a metatable, inspect will include it at the end, in a special f
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Notice that since both `a` appears more than once in the expression, it is prefixed by `<1>` and replaced by `<table 1>` every time it appears later on.
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### options.depth
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`inspect`'s second parameter allows controlling the maximum depth that will be printed out. When the max depth is reached, it'll just return `{...}`:
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local t5 = {a = {b = {c = {d = {e = 5}}}}}
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inspect(t5, {depth = 4}) == [[{
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a = {
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b = {
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c = {
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d = {...}
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}
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}
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}
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}]]
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inspect(t5, {depth = 2}) == [[{
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a = {
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b = {...}
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}
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}]])
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`options.depth` defaults to infinite (`math.huge`).
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### options.filter
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Sometimes it might be convenient to "filter out" some parts of the output. The `options.filter` option can do that.
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`options.filter` accepts a table of values. Any value on that table will be rendered as `<filtered>`. This is useful for hiding things like long complex tables that are not interesting for the task at hand, for example an unuseful complex metatable.
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local person = {name = 'peter'}
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setmetatable(person, complex_mt)
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inspect(x, {filter = {complex_mt}}) == [[{
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name = "peter",
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<metatable> = <filtered>
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}]]
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`options.filter` can also be a function. The function must return true for the values that must be filtered out.
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local isEvenNumber = function(x) return type(x) == 'number' and x % 2 == 0 end
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inspect({1,2,3,4,5}, {filter = isEvenNumber}) == "{ 1, <filtered>, 3, <filtered>, 5 }"
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Gotchas / Warnings
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==================
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