flm01/openwrt/packages/flukso/src/dbg.lua

--
-- dbg.lua: library for debugging with vardump in Lua
-- Lua Programming Gems Chapter 3
-- Vardump: The Power of Seeing What's Behind
-- Copyright 2008 by Tobias Sülzenbrück and Christoph Beckmann
--
-- $Id$
--

local getfenv, getmetatable, print, pairs, type, tostring = getfenv, getmetatable, print, pairs, type, tostring

module(...)
local modenv = getfenv() -- module environment

function vardump(value, depth, key)
  local linePrefix = ""
  local spaces = ""

  if key ~= nil then
    linePrefix = "["..key.."] = "
  end

  if depth == nil then
    depth = 0
  else
    depth = depth + 1
    for i = 1,depth do spaces = spaces.."  " end
  end

  if type(value) == 'table' then
--    mTable = getmetatable(value)
--    if mTable == nil then
      print(spaces..linePrefix.."(table) ")
--    else
--      print(spaces.."(metatable) ")
--      value = mTable
--    end
    for tableKey, tableValue in pairs(value) do
      vardump(tableValue, depth, tableKey)
    end
  elseif type(value) == 'function'
      or type(value) == 'thread'
      or type(value) == 'userdata'
      or value       == nil
  then
    print(spaces..tostring(value))
  else
    print(spaces..linePrefix.."("..type(value)..") "..tostring(value))
  end
end