From 206fd85f999292861efaa49af2f4b320f89364e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Greenwell <ray@threerings.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:34:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated StringUtil.toString() to print Objects (associative
 hashes). Added some comments about inadequacies.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@4929 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1
---
 src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
index e34e3805b..7c51b6cb4 100644
--- a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
+++ b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
@@ -172,16 +172,31 @@ public class StringUtil
 
     public static function toString (obj :*) :String
     {
+        // TODO: this should be able to detect circular references
+
+        var s :String;
         if (obj is Array) {
             var arr :Array = (obj as Array);
-            var s :String = "Array(";
+            s = "";
             for (var ii :int = 0; ii < arr.length; ii++) {
                 if (ii > 0) {
                     s += ", ";
                 }
                 s += (ii + ": " + toString(arr[ii]));
             }
-            return s + ")";
+            return "Array(" + s + ")";
+        }
+
+        // TODO: maybe do this for any dynamic object?
+        if (obj != null && obj.constructor == Object) {
+            s = "";
+            for (var prop :String in obj) {
+                if (s.length > 0) {
+                    s += ", ";
+                }
+                s += prop + "=>" + toString(obj[prop]);
+            }
+            return "Object(" + s + ")";
         }
 
         return String(obj);