Overview

The Pimp Module designed to aid in debugging and logging by providing functions to print and format information about function calls, arguments, and more. It offers a simple way to enhance the debugging process in your Lua applications.

Features and Usage

Debug Function

The core functionality of the module is the debug function. You can use it to print and format debugging information:

local p = require 'pimp'
p("This is a debugging message", 42, { key = "value" }, true)

Inspect Variables

p('Pimp Module!')
p(true, false, nil)
p(function() end)
p(io.stderr)
p(10000, math.pi)
p(0/0, -1/0, 1/0)

local test = function () end
p(function() end, test)

local co = coroutine.create(function() end)
p(co)

if box then
  p(box.NULL)
end

p|> file.lua:7: 'Pimp Module!': [len 12]
p|> file.lua:8: true: [boolean], false: [boolean], nil
p|> file.lua:9: <function: 0x402899e8>
p|> file.lua:10: <file (0x7f14da5f74e0)>: [userdata]
p|> file.lua:11: 10000: [number], 3.1415926535898: [number]
p|> file.lua:12: nan: [number], -inf: [number], inf: [number]
p|> file.lua:15: <function: 0x41d7a090>, test = <function: 0x411c7b70>
p|> file.lua:18: co = <thread: 0x411f8a30>
p|> file.lua:21: <cdata<void *>: NULL>: [cdata]

Inspect Tables

local table_name = {
  name = "John",
  age = 30,
  city = "New York"
}

p(t)

p|> test.lua:1: table_name = {
  age = 30: [number],
  name = 'John': [length 4],
  city = 'New York': [length 8],
}: [table]

Inspect Functions

local function sum(a, b)
  p(a, b)
  return a + b
end

local result_sum = p(sum(10, 5))

p|> file.lua:5 in sum(a: 10, b: 5) 10: [number], 5: [number]
p|> file.lua:6: 15: [number]

Disable or Enable output

p:disable()
p('Hello')
p:enable()

p('World')

p|> file.lua:6: 'World': [length 5]

Change prefix

p:setPrefix({ prefix = 'INFO', sep = '|-> ' })
p('Wow! It\'s new prefix!')
p:resetPrefix()

INFO|-> file.lua:2: 'Wow! It's new preffix!': [length 22]

logging

p.log.trace('Trace message')
p.log.debug('Debug message')
p.log.info('Info message')
p.log.warn('Warn message')
p.log.error('Error message')
p.log.fatal('Fatal message')

Options:
p.log.writeWithColor - true or false
p.log.outfile - file path to save log
p.log.ignore - log ignore table

*See test.lua for more examples