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breakLength inspect option is not respected with four or more levels of deepness when depth option is 3 or more #45193
Description
Version
v18.12.0
Platform
Linux ubuntu 5.11.0-38-generic #42~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 28 20:41:07 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Subsystem
util
What steps will reproduce the bug?
const { inspect } = require('util');
const inspectOptions = { depth: 3, breakLength: Infinity };
const obj_1 = { one: { two: { three: 'cool!' } } };
const obj_2 = { one: { two: { three: { four: 'boom!' } } } };
console.log(inspect(obj_1, inspectOptions));
console.log(inspect(obj_2, inspectOptions));How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
Always
What is the expected behavior?
{ one: { two: { three: 'cool!' } } }
{ one: { two: { three: { four: 'boom!' } } } }What do you see instead?
{ one: { two: { three: 'cool!' } } }
{
one: { two: { three: { four: 'boom!' } } }
}Additional information
No response
Activity
BridgeAR commentedon Jan 5, 2023
The behavior above seems correct to me. Our documentation seems a bit off though. The reason is that
compactis set to 3 by default. That means only up to the three most inner elements are combined to a single line, as long as these elements all fit intobreakLength. If e.g., the most two inner ones would already exceedbreakLength, then the line would already be separated earlier.If you want to have a single line, please also set
compacttoInfinity.BridgeAR commentedon Nov 4, 2024
Since there was no follow-up, I am going to close this as working as expected.