Using nesh formatting inside callbacks

[felipeccastro]

Using nesh formatting inside callbacks

[ccheever]

I think you want something like https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers

I made a nesh plugin https://github.com/ccheever/nesh-fibrous that let's you do things like

fibrous-coffee> User.fromId('3be25495-30c0-4ac1-9841-14965496c63d', (err, result) -> console.log result); 0
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fibrous-coffee> { props:
   { __createdTime__: 1388723937299,
     __lastUpdatedTime__: 1393627323048,
     id: '3be25495-30c0-4ac1-9841-14965496c63d',
     name: 'Charlie Cheever',
     photoUrl: 'http://650x-us-standard.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/misc-jpeg/HiRbF4xwQSO1pMvx_TnXCw.jpeg' },
  __syncedTime__: 1394497060524 }

undefined
fibrous-coffee> cdc = User.sync.fromId('3be25495-30c0-4ac1-9841-14965496c63d')
{ props:
   { __createdTime__: 1388723937299,
     __lastUpdatedTime__: 1393627323048,
     id: '3be25495-30c0-4ac1-9841-14965496c63d',
     name: 'Charlie Cheever',
     photoUrl: 'http://650x-us-standard.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/misc-jpeg/HiRbF4xwQSO1pMvx_TnXCw.jpeg' },
  __syncedTime__: 1394497084108 }
fibrous-coffee>

[felipeccastro]

The original question was even simpler than that, but this is awesome!
I installed this plugin and now the console is much better to work with, thanks very much!

[danielgtaylor]

Thanks @ccheever. Glad you guys got this working nicely 👍

[ccheever]

console.log(require('util').inspect(result)) is the answer to your original question, btw.

[danielgtaylor]

BTW, the util module should be available in the global scope by default, so there's no need to require it:

console.log(util.inspect(result));

[felipeccastro]

Thanks @ccheever , but that's still not quite the same.
See the difference between the first and the second commands: it looks like util.inspect is converting the object into a string, and using with console.log it loses the colors.

[ccheever]

http://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_customizing_util_inspect_colors

nesh> console.log(util.inspect({1:2},{colors:true}))
{ '1': 2 }

[felipeccastro]

ah! That's the one!