samdenty/console-feed

Encode does not work with window object

ChristopherHButler opened this issue · 0 comments

I am making a console log input (very similar to the one on code sandbox) and I am using the Encode function for the data property of the log object like this:

      const result = eval(`${this.state.code}`);

      const logs = [{
        method: 'log',
        id: shortid.generate(),
        data: Encode(result),
      }];
      this.props.appendToConsoles({ logs });

This seems to work fine for other objects but if I type window I get a warning and Encode kills my app.

The warning:

[Deprecation] 'window.webkitStorageInfo' is deprecated. Please use 'navigator.webkitTemporaryStorage' or 'navigator.webkitPersistentStorage' instead.

which seems to be coming from:

EncodingTransformer.prototype._handlePlainObject = function (obj) {
        var result = Object.create(null);
        for (var key in obj) {
            if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
                var resultKey = KEY_REQUIRE_ESCAPING_RE.test(key) ? "#" + key : key;
                result[resultKey] = this._handleValue(obj[key], result, resultKey); // <------- this line

I understand the issue now; the window object has circular references which cannot be serialized without some help. I had a peek into your library and you seem to be handling this so I'm not sure what my next move is. I found a little snippet I can use to pass as a replacer function to JSON.serialize but that is pointless if you are already handling this case.