Dumping ANY kind of object

[newvice]

As I saw the question of dumping variables came ob multiple times. I never saw a solution tho for dumping objects that are "foreign" to AHK's objects.

Is there a function like the folloing powershell command?

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$message = $obj | Format-Custom -Depth $depth -force | out-string
write-host $message 

It dumps the whole object in a hierarchical fashion.

Can this be done in AHK somehow?

[Chunjee]

The json libraries do that. The following examples are simple objects but the libraries work for any depth.


https://github.com/Chunjee/json.ahk

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#Include %A_ScriptDir%\node_modules\json.ahk\export.ahk

JSON.stringify([1, 2, 3])
; => "[1, 2, 3]"

https://github.com/G33kDude/AutoHotkey-JSON

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#Include <JSON>

JSON.Dump([1, 2, 3])
; => "[1, 2, 3]"

[newvice]

But do they also work for lets say Acc objects? Or COM Objects?

[Chunjee]

ah wouldn't that be cool. These don't so that because COM objects aren't enumerable or somesuch.

[newvice]

When its somehow possible to call the mentioned powershell command, give it the object as parameter and get the strings it returns...

Or...
Is AHK capable to call .NET methods like powershell can? Then it would be a no brainer.