tosource-polyfill
toSource polyfill that converts JavaScript objects back to source code
It got inspiration on node-tosource
Introduction
This module set on objects prototype the Mozilla toSource() function that
allow to get a source code representation of an object. It also has a helper
function that allow to serialize some extra objects like null
or
undefined
.
Installation
npm install tosource-polyfill
Examples
The following code:
var toSource = console
Output:
4 5 6 "hello" "1":4 a:2 b:3 "if":5 yes:true no:false nan:NaN infinity:Infinity "undefined":undefined "null":null { console console } /we$/gi 807926400000
See test.js for more examples.
Supported Types
- Numbers
- Strings
- Array literals
- object literals
- function
- RegExp literals
- Dates
- true
- false
- undefined
- null
- NaN
- Infinity
Notes
- Functions are serialized with
func.toString()
, no closure properties are serialized - Multiple references to the same object become copies
- Circular references are encoded as
{$circularReference:1}
License
toSource is open source software under the zlib license.