function-scout

Scouts all functions of a given object and provides data about their origin.

    function inspect(obj, depth) {
      console.error(require('util').inspect(obj, false, depth || 5, true))
    }
 
    const path = require('path')
    const scout = require('function-scout')
 
    const res = scout(path.basename, { mutate: true })
    inspect(res)

{ scouted:
  FunctionOrigin {
    file: 'path.js',
    line: 1354,
    column: 29,
    inferredName: '',
    name: 'basename' },
  functions:
  [ { path: [],
      key: undefined,
      level: 0,
      info:
        FunctionOrigin {
          file: 'path.js',
          line: 1354,
          column: 29,
          inferredName: '',
          name: 'basename' } } ] }

Also see the full fs.createReadStream example

Installation

npm install function-scout

API

functionScout

Scouts all functions in the provided object by traversing it.

It returns an array of all functions found as functions and the cloned object with all functions replaced with their information as scouted

A functions value looks like this:

 { path: [ '_events', 'end', '1' ],
   key: '1',
   level: 3,
   info:
   FunctionOrigin {
     file: '/Volumes/d/dev/js/async-hooks/function-scout/examples/readStream.js',
     line: 10,
     column: 14,
     inferredName: '',
     name: 'onend' } }

The level, path and key provide information about where in the object each function was found.

The scouted functions look the same except they don't have any level, path, key information since they are still attached to the object. The scouted object only is returned if mutate=true and has the resolved functions attached to the paths of the object at which they were originally found. By default mutate=false and thus only functions are returned.

Parameters

• object Object the object which functions to scout
• $0 Object configure how functions are scouted
  • $0.mutate boolean? if true the object is cloned and then the are functions replaced with the scouted versions on the returned scouted object. (optional, default false)
  • $0.referenceFunction boolean? if true a reference to the function is included with each of the function infos. Make sure to not hold on to it as it would prevent the function and anything it closes over to be garbage collected (optional, default false)

Returns Object with properties scouted (if mutate=true) and functions explained above

License

MIT