Fun with Javascript and function tracing.
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It's been invaluable for us on Maps to be able to graphically trace the execution of our code.
When I started doing this I had a lot of ideas, even sample profiling, etc, etc. But realized that in order to make it actually useful and being able to trace everything without slowing the crap down of everything I would had to do some sort of plugin or module, ala Firebug. Not a weekend project anymore.
But apparently you guys already did it! very cool. I'll check it out.
It is commercial though.
Just go to the element in the "Elements" tab, right-click, "Break on ..." and choose what kind of breakpoint you want.
I just tested it with jQuery.hide() and it works wonderfully.
My only question is how it works with prototyped or nested functions, such as the `hide` method that you mentioned. Would you just call Tracing.trace('$.fn.hide', 'Object.static_method', 'Object.prototype.object_method') for example to get access to those particular methods?
Local functions as in nested inside another function, or directly assigned to a local variable, or passed as a function argument the lib cannot hook into because there is no way I can address them since I am not in your lexical context and if you pass them to the library you pass only the reference to the function, not a reference to the reference.
In that case I guess it may be possible for the library to hook your code into them only if you pass them to the library and the library returns a new function for you but that is a little too cumbersome.