Comments on: Dump Debug Method (Like var_dump Function in PHP) and Debug Class

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:09:33 +0000

Leon, thanks for your piece of code. Nice approach. It is helpful but it would be great if we could get rid of those ObjectProxy displaying around the dump.

By: leon

leon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:23:13 +0000

I made some effort to make it support XML.
This var_dump syntax is really handy to keep things uniform when displaying large structures, and share it between XML/JSON/PHP/YAML/Whatever technology.

// put these as the first lines of recursiveDump()
if (o is XML || o is XMLList)
{
    var xml:XML = (o is XML) ? o as XML : undefined;
    var xmllist:XMLList = (o is XMLList) ? o as XMLList : undefined;
    o = xml2Object((o is XML) ? xml.toString() : xmllist.toString());
}
 
internal static function xml2Object(xml:String):Object
{
    var xmlDoc:XMLDocument = new XMLDocument(xml);
    var decoder:SimpleXMLDecoder = new SimpleXMLDecoder(true);
    return decoder.decodeXML(xmlDoc);
}

By: leon

leon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:07:11 +0000

respect, I was planning to write this..but you beat me first

By: alivejune

alivejune — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:21:21 +0000

great!

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:11:51 +0000

Gary, thank you for comment. Is great to hear that the method is helpful to programmers.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:17:33 +0000

Andrei, you were very polite to TiTerm. Your dump is way more useful than ObjectUtil.toString ! The fact that it is recursive makes all the
difference for me, and the fact its not in the standard library is
negligable. Thanks heaps for this ! Exactly what I was looking for.

Gary

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:50:59 +0000

Thanks for comment. ObjectUtil.toString is very helpful but has some differences...

doesn't calculate the number of children
doesn't display all data types (XML data is not displayed)
doesn't display the data type of the leafs
if you want to dump more than one object you have to put all your objects into an array

...but these are not major drawbacks so use ObjectUtil.toString with confidence.

By: TiTerm

TiTerm — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:09:01 +0000

nice try,

you can also do ObjectUtil.toString(testdata), it will give you same result with regular lib.