Question

I am console.loging some JSON and Google Chrome by default has the whole object wrapped. So if I want to have a global view of the stuff in the JSON, I have to manually unwrap every property reccursively. Is it possible to tell console.log that I want my object to be completely unwrapped?

Answer 1

console.dir and console.log wrap objects in that manner so they don’t have to deal with recursion, which would cause an infinite loop. I don’t believe there’s a way to have it unwrap the entire object (for the aforementioned reason) with a special command.

You could restringify the JSON to be “pretty” and view the entire thing as a string:

console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(compressedJSON), null, 4));

The only other option is to paste your JSON into a JSON viewing application (Fiddler has one built in).