Bug 118929 – Web Inspector: strings logged to the console cannot be directly copied and pasted into the console as displayed

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: CONFIGURATION CHANGED
• Component: Web Inspector

[James Savage]

Overview:
Evaluating an expression in the web inspector console such as `JSON.stringify({foo:'bar'})`will produce a text result of `"{"foo":"bar"}"`, which if copied and pasted back into the console is a syntax error. It would be useful if we escape inner quote marks, or in some way format this, such that what is displayed is a valid javascript expression.

Steps to reproduce:
Evaluate an expression such as `JSON.stringify({foo:'bar'})`

Expected result:
Console result which is a valid JavaScript expression, such as `"{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"`.

Actual result:
The contents of the result string, wrapped in double quotes, but without inner quotes escaped.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/14499707>