Oh this closure issue is really annoying !
Is there any way it can be fixed ?
Shall I raise an issue ?
Aaron
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 20:26, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 20:19, Forrest Norvell <othiy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You’re going to need to write a custom serializer similar to util.inspect
>> to get this. Be forewarned, though, there’s a reason functions aren’t
>> displayed as their source by default: calling .toString() on a function
>> doesn’t include the closure environment for the function, so any lexically
>> defined values that are in scope when the function was defined won’t be
>> available later:
>>
>> function mildCurry (a) {
>> return (b) => a + b;
>> }
>>
>> const oneOff = { add2: mildCurry(2) }
>> // > oneOff.add2.toString()
>> // '(b) => a + b'
>>
>> If you’re careful about how you define functions on objects (and also
>> figure out whether you want to include prototype methods as part of this
>> serialization) you can probably stay out of trouble, but this isn’t as
>> generally useful as you might hope.
>>
> Hopefully I am not worried about closures though I will have to check my
> usecase's code out as its a third party library.
>
> I have found Function.toString() works for functions so will just write a
> serialized as you suggest.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:05 PM Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to print out objects with embedded functions ideally both to the
>>> command line and as files.
>>>
>>> const test = {
>>> name: "test",
>>> get: function() { return "test"; }
>>> };
>>>
>>> I need to print out a structure like the above with the function
>>> definition to the console and also as a text file.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
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