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Feature #14145

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Proposal: Better Method#inspect

Added by zverok (Victor Shepelev) over 6 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:84004]

Description

The idea: When investigating (in example scripts, debugger or console) the library you are unfamiliar with, Ruby's reflection is very useful mechanism to understand "what it can": classes, modules, their constants, methods and so on.
I propose to expose a bit more information Ruby has internally in Method#inspect:

# before:
some_interesting_object.method(:foo) # => #<Method Klass#foo>
# after:
some_interesting_object.method(:foo) # => #<Method Klass#foo(first_arg, *other_args, keyword_arg:)>

Dead-naive implementation:

class Method
  def signature
    recv = case receiver
    when Module
      "#{receiver.name}."
    else
      "#{receiver.class}#"
    end
    parameters.map.with_index { |(type, name), i|
      case type
      when :req then "#{name || "param#{i+1}"}"
      when :opt then "#{name || "param#{i+1}"} = <default>"
      when :keyreq then "#{name || "kw#{i+1}"}:"
      when :key then "#{name || "kwparam#{i+1}"}: <default>"
      when :rest then "*#{name || "rest"}"
      when :keyrest then "**#{name || "kwrest"}"
      end
    }.join(', ').prepend("#{recv}#{name}(") << ")"
  end

  def inspect
    "#<#{self.class.name} #{signature}>"
  end
end

This works "sub-optimal" for methods implemented in C, yet pretty decently for Ruby-implemented methods:

# C method, default param names
[1,2,3].method(:at)
# => #<Method Array#at(param1)>

# Ruby method, proper param names
CGI.method(:escape)
# => #<Method CGI.escape(string)>
Addressable::URI.method(:parse)
# => #<Method Addressable::URI.parse(uri)>
Addressable::URI.method(:join)
 => #<Method Addressable::URI.join(*uris)>

# We can't extract default values, but at least we can say they are there
Addressable::URI.method(:heuristic_parse)
# => #<Method Addressable::URI.heuristic_parse(uri, hints = <default>)>

If the proposal is accepted, I am ready to implement it properly in C (for all callable objects: Method, UnboundMethod, Proc)


Related issues 3 (2 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Feature #14111: ArgumentErrorが発生した時メソッドのプロトタイプをメッセージに含むOpenActions
Related to Ruby master - Feature #16101: Proc#to_s returns "... file:line" instead of "...@file:line"Closedko1 (Koichi Sasada)Actions
Related to Ruby master - Feature #16356: Method#inspect of argument forwardingOpenActions
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