Feature: Name mixins and other exports of this addon

[pichfl]

I work on large projects and more than often I find myself wading through a whole bunch of UnknownMixin and similar objects inside of Ember Inspector.

We recently discovered that Ember Inspector reads the [Ember.NAME_KEY] property of each Ember Object to display a proper name.

Therefore I propose to add this property to all mixins and objects exported by this addon, making the object stack a bit easier to read.

If this sounds interesting, I'll supply a pull request for this. 🙂

[marcoow]

Seems like a worthwhile addition. I'm not sure Ember.NAME_KEY is public or there's a public way of accessing it though?

[pichfl]

It's not quite public. Though others are using it as well:

• Unknown mixin name emberjs/ember-inspector#284
• adding a name to the mixin, so it is represented in ember inspector DavyJonesLocker/ember-validations#389
• Ember inspector - Named scope adopted-ember-addons/ember-cp-validations#306

[marcoow]

guess it's "intimate" API then 😉

So yeah, PR would be 👍

[pichfl]

After talking to @rwjblue on Slack I'd consider wrapping these calls with the DEBUG flag described here: https://github.com/babel/ember-cli-babel#general-purpose-env-flags (and in his blog post here), making this only available in development. (Or maybe just a stripped down version described in this gist)

[marcoow]

This should actually be fixed in the Ember Inspector - see ember-cli/ember-rfc176-data#12 (comment)