I finally published my first addon, and it hit the asset library today!
Log.pr(...) and Log.prn(...) are intended as drop-in replacements for print(...):
- colorizes the output data based on type
- recursively prints dictionaries and arrays
- (with a sane max count, i.e. not printing 1000 entries in an array)
- adds a script-name prefix and line-number before each log
- with different treatment for
[src:12]:vs<addons:12>:vs{test:12}:scripts
- with different treatment for
For me this helps reduce wall-of-text noise and eye strain while reading logs at a glance.
I created a docs site via docsify, and the code is on github.
I’ll be adding support for more types and customizing the color choices soon. You can opt-in to pretty-printing with your own objects by implementing a to_printable() function. I’m brainstorming ways to add support for not-your custom types as well (for example, Pandora Entities) - I have a few ideas but nothing implemented yet.
I’ve been using it in my own projects for a few months now, so it feels ready to share - I’m hopeful that others find it useful!
Try it out, let me know what you think!
Nice! I haven’t thought about pretty printers since I used penlight on Lua, but now I think I need one. I’ll add this to my arsenal.
