Bug 101021 – Web Inspector: add console.clear()

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)

[Andrey Lushnikov]

downstream: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158770

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open the Developer Tools
2. Select Console
3. type console.clear()

What is the expected behavior?
To clear the console's log area, through the script.

What went wrong?
Nothing happens

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 22.0.1229.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.7.5

I know I can erase it by tying CMD+K, but I like to have a debug for my code, like, show every event triggered when I click some element. What I'd like to do is to have the whole console cleared when I click. console.clear() works on Firebug, but doesn't in Developer Tools.

[Andrey Lushnikov]

Created attachment 172003 [details]
Patch

[Pavel Feldman]

Comment on attachment 172003 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=172003&action=review

> Source/WebCore/inspector/ConsoleMessage.cpp:115
> +    case ClearConsoleMessageType: return TypeBuilder::Console::ConsoleMessage::Type::Clear;

Drop "Console", it's cleaner.

> Source/WebCore/inspector/front-end/ConsoleMessage.js:80
> +                    this._messageElement = document.createTextNode("console.clear()");

I would say "Console was cleared" with gray. You'll need to put it into WebCore/English.lproj/localizedStrings.js

> LayoutTests/inspector/console/console-clear-function-expected.txt:11
> +console.clear()

Sounds like the source location is missing.

> LayoutTests/inspector/console/console-clear-function.html:22
> +    RuntimeAgent.evaluate("console.clear();", function() {

Use named functions (step1)

[Andrey Lushnikov]

Created attachment 172064 [details]
Patch

[Vsevolod Vlasov]

Comment on attachment 172064 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=172064&action=review

> LayoutTests/inspector/console/console-clear-function.html:42
> +Tests that console is cleared via console.clear() method

Please add a link to the bug.

[Andrey Lushnikov]

Created attachment 172071 [details]
Patch

[Build Bot]

Comment on attachment 172071 [details]
Patch

Attachment 172071 [details] did not pass mac-ews (mac):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/14703008

[Andrey Lushnikov]

Created attachment 172517 [details]
Patch

[WebKit Review Bot]

Comment on attachment 172517 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 172517

Committed r133614: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/133614>

[WebKit Review Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Brad]

Seriously? It is fixed and closed because it now prints "Console was cleared"? Shouldn't it also, you know, clear the console too? That was the OP's expected behavior, and it does not do that currently.

[Pavel Feldman]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Seriously? It is fixed and closed because it now prints "Console was cleared"? Shouldn't it also, you know, clear the console too? That was the OP's expected behavior, and it does not do that currently.

This option has no effect when "Preserve Log upon navigation" is toggled. You could use "clear()" in console to clean it up in such cases.