Clean up an object prior to serialization.

Replaces circular references, pretty prints Buffers, and numerous other enhancements. Primarily designed to prepare Errors for serialization to JSON/YAML.

Extracted from node-tap

$ npm install --save clean-yaml-object

const cleanYamlObject = require('clean-yaml-object');

cleanYamlObject(new Error('foo'));
//=> {name: 'Error', message: 'foo', stack: ...}

Returns a deep copy of input that is suitable for serialization.

Type: *

Any object.

Type: callback(propertyName, isRoot, source, target)

Optional filter callback. Returning true will cause the property to be copied. Otherwise it will be skipped

• propertyName: The property being copied.
• isRoot: true only if source is the top level object passed to copyYamlObject
• source: The source from which source[propertyName] will be copied.
• target: The target object.

MIT © Isaac Z. Schlueter James Talmage