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* %O (big O) pretty-prints the object

For example:

```js
var debug = require('./')('foo')

var o = {
  foo: 'bar',
  b: new Buffer(10),
  c: Math.PI
}

debug('%O', o)
```

Previously:

```
  foo { foo: 'bar', b: <Buffer 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 c0 82>, c: 3.141592653589793 } +0ms
```

Now:

```
  foo { foo: 'bar',
  foo   b: <Buffer 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 c0 82>,
  foo   c: 3.141592653589793 } +0ms
```

This is a breaking change for anybody relying on the old `%O` behavior.
Though I don't think `%O` was working previously because the formatters
regexp wasn't checking for uppercase formatters (now fixed in this patch).

* use %O by default if no formatting string is given

* Readme: add Formatters section

Fixes #302.

* Readme: finish custom formatters example
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TooTallNate authored and thebigredgeek committed Dec 12, 2016
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30 changes: 30 additions & 0 deletions Readme.md
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Expand Up @@ -87,6 +87,36 @@ Then, run the program to be debugged as usual.

You can also exclude specific debuggers by prefixing them with a "-" character. For example, `DEBUG=*,-connect:*` would include all debuggers except those starting with "connect:".

## Formatters


Debug uses [printf-style](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string) formatting. Below are the officially supported formatters:

| Formatter | Representation |
|-----------|----------------|
| `%O` | Pretty-print an Object on multiple lines. |
| `%o` | Pretty-print an Object all on a single line. |
| `%s` | String. |
| `%d` | Number (both integer and float). |
| `%j` | JSON. Replaced with the string '[Circular]' if the argument contains circular references. |
| `%%` | Single percent sign ('%'). This does not consume an argument. |

### Custom formatters

You can add custom formatters by extending the `debug.formatters` object. For example, if you wanted to add support for rendering a Buffer as hex with `%h`, you could do something like:

```js
const createDebug = require('debug')
createDebug.formatters.h = (v) => {
return v.toString('hex')
}

// …elsewhere
const debug = createDebug('foo')
debug('this is hex: %h', new Buffer('hello world'))
// foo this is hex: 68656c6c6f20776f726c6421 +0ms
```

## Browser support

Debug works in the browser as well, currently persisted by `localStorage`. Consider the situation shown below where you have `worker:a` and `worker:b`, and wish to debug both. You can enable this using `localStorage.debug`:
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions debug.js
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Expand Up @@ -98,13 +98,13 @@ function debug(namespace) {
args[0] = exports.coerce(args[0]);

if ('string' !== typeof args[0]) {
// anything else let's inspect with %o
args = ['%o'].concat(args);
// anything else let's inspect with %O
args.unshift('%O');
}

// apply any `formatters` transformations
var index = 0;
args[0] = args[0].replace(/%([a-z%])/g, function(match, format) {
args[0] = args[0].replace(/%([a-zA-Z%])/g, function(match, format) {
// if we encounter an escaped % then don't increase the array index
if (match === '%%') return match;
index++;
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11 changes: 7 additions & 4 deletions node.js
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Expand Up @@ -68,11 +68,15 @@ var inspect = (4 === util.inspect.length ?
}
);

exports.formatters.o = exports.formatters.O = function(v) {
exports.formatters.o = function(v) {
return inspect(v, this.useColors)
.replace(/\s*\n\s*/g, ' ');
};

exports.formatters.O = function(v) {
return inspect(v, this.useColors);
};

/**
* Adds ANSI color escape codes if enabled.
*
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if (useColors) {
var c = this.color;
var prefix = ' \u001b[3' + c + ';1m' + name + ' ' + '\u001b[0m';

args[0] = ' \u001b[3' + c + ';1m' + name + ' '
+ '\u001b[0m'
+ args[0];
args[0] = prefix + args[0].split('\n').join('\n' + prefix);
args.push('\u001b[3' + c + 'm+' + exports.humanize(this.diff) + '\u001b[0m');
} else {
args[0] = new Date().toUTCString()
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