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console: Add common aliases for console methods
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aks- committed Oct 30, 2015
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/console.markdown
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Expand Up @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ is used on each argument. See [util.format()][] for more information.

Same as `console.log`.

### console.debug(object [,object, ...])

Same as `console.log`.

### console.error([data][, ...])

Same as `console.log` but prints to stderr.
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Same as `console.error`.

### console.exception(object [, object, ...])

Same as `console.error`.

### console.dir(obj[, options])

Uses `util.inspect` on `obj` and prints resulting string to stdout. This function
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions lib/console.js
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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Console.prototype.log = function() {
Console.prototype.info = Console.prototype.log;


Console.prototype.debug = Console.prototype.log;


Console.prototype.warn = function() {
this._stderr.write(util.format.apply(this, arguments) + '\n');
};
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Console.prototype.error = Console.prototype.warn;


Console.prototype.exception = Console.prototype.warn;


Console.prototype.dir = function(object, options) {
this._stdout.write(util.inspect(object, util._extend({
customInspect: false
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-console-instance.js
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Expand Up @@ -36,10 +36,19 @@ assert(!called);
c.log('test');
assert(called);

assert.equal(Console.prototype.log, Console.prototype.debug);
assert.equal(c.log('test'), c.debug('test'));

called = false;
c.error('test');
assert(called);

assert.equal(Console.prototype.error, Console.prototype.warn);
assert.equal(c.error('test'), c.warn('test'));

assert.equal(Console.prototype.exception, Console.prototype.warn);
assert.equal(c.exception('test'), c.warn('test'));

out.write = function(d) {
assert.equal('{ foo: 1 }\n', d);
called = true;
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