[robobun]

Problem

• A console.table or Bun.inspect.table cell with a URL, TransformStream, PerformanceMark, Request, Response or File prints on many lines. console.table([{ c: new URL("http://example.com/a?b=1") }]) prints 18. Bun.inspect(value, { compact: true }) breaks too.
• Two hand-offs drop the formatter's single-line mode (tables, compact: true and test.each titles set it). An [inspect.custom] hook gets only { stylize, depth, colors } (src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp:32). Native printers write "\n" by hand (src/jsc/lib.rs:238).

Fix

• Single-line mode adds breakLength: Infinity and compact: true to the hook options. Eight native printers write 44 line breaks through ConsoleFormatter::write_break().
• Correct because default text does not move: Bun.inspect(value) is identical for 229 kinds.
• Verified: test/js/bun/console/console-table.test.ts, inspect.test.js, custom-inspect.test.js, jest-each.test.ts, dom-nodes.test.ts.
• Self-reviewed: 18 concerns raised, 16 addressed. Rejected: a print_event rewrite (Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 owns it), #[deprecated] on write_indent (one caller remains).

Background

• depth is not changed: it decides how much prints, not where lines break.
• Considered collapsing line feeds in the cell: both printers stay wrong, compact stays broken.

Downsides

• test.each and describe.each titles print these kinds on one line, as bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 set for other values. A released snapshot key of such a row ends with this PR: CI fails until --update-snapshots. junit names and -t follow.
• Buffer properties and a Request, Response or Blob in error messages print on one line. A hook that forwards to Bun.inspect drops JSX children until console: print JSX children in single-line mode #47680.
• The ahead-of-time compiler's host table omits the two new keys: an engine test pins its row. Compiled programs read both (tested). +32 B per single-line hook call, +8 instructions per default hook call, .text -8,704 bytes.

Notes

Origin

There is no issue for this change. @Jarred-Sumner asked for a PR that keeps these six cells on one line in console.table and in Bun.inspect.table, with a test for each kind. Nobody else reported it.

Regression

Lines that a one-row table prints. 5 is a whole box.

cell	1.3.14	1.4.0	1.4.1 to 1.4.4, main	this PR	Node 26.3.0
URL	5	18	18	5	5
TransformStream	5	9	9	5	5
PerformanceMark	5	5	11	5	5
Request	9	9	9	5	5
Response	14	14	14	5	5
File	8	8	8	5	5

• The first three got [inspect.custom] hooks: URL in node compat batch: callback-throw dispatch, Assert class + native deep-equality parity, Intl gate + URL/buffer fallout, compile cache, watch kill-signal, profilers (+98 tests) #34660 and the web streams in Wire up HeapAnalyzer for Web Streams cell classes #33830 (both first in 1.4.0), PerformanceEntry in perf_hooks: native toJSON (with detail) and inspect hook for performance entries #39921 (first in 1.4.1). Before that the formatter printed them itself.
• Request, Response and File are multi-line in a cell since console.table shipped (feat: implement console.table #7866).
• In an inventory of 229 kinds of value, 62 break a one-row table on main (2b0ace8) and 12 on this branch.

Which lines are the fix

• createInspectOptionsObject in src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.cpp: the two option keys. print_custom_formatted_object passes one flags byte (colors, single-line) where it passed colors: bool, so the call keeps six register arguments.
• ConsoleFormatter::write_break and single_line in src/jsc/lib.rs. The edits in Request.rs, Response.rs, Body.rs, Blob.rs, S3File.rs, S3Client.rs, Archive.rs and JSBundler.rs replace each "\n" plus write_indent with one write_break.
• The cheaper shape, a fold of line feed plus indent in TablePrinter::format_cell, gives the same six cells. It does not fix compact: true, it prints a Request with a body without a separator (headers: Headers {} Blob (2 bytes)), and it rewrites a line feed that is content (a File name).

What a hook is told

• Default mode: { stylize, depth, colors }, as before.
• Single-line mode: also breakLength: Infinity and compact: true. Node's Buffer hook passes this pair for one line (lib/buffer.js). Node's console.table passes breakLength: Infinity only (constructor.js). That is not enough here: with a numeric compact, util.inspect still breaks an object nested three levels and an array of more than six items. Node's cells hold neither (depth 0, three array items). Bun's cells do.
• compact: true has two effects on a hook that forwards its options:
  • util.inspect puts a base inside the braces: Box { [Function: foo] a: 1 }, where the default layout prints Box [Function: foo] { a: 1 }. A test row pins this.
  • A hook that forwards to Bun.inspect now prints in single-line mode. There a JSX element prints without its children (<b>bold</b> prints <b />). A JSX element that is a cell by itself prints the same on main. Behind such a hook, main printed the children. print_jsx is not changed here. console: print JSX children in single-line mode #47680 prints the children in single-line mode, and with it this case is gone.

How this relates to depth

• console.table starts a cell at depth 0 of 5. Bun.inspect.table starts it at its depth option, 5 of 5 by default. A hook gets max_depth - depth as its first argument and options.depth = max_depth. This PR reads and changes none of that.
• The six kinds print the same text in both functions today, because their hooks use options.depth and the native printers do not read a depth. If depth gets a new meaning for tables, the expected text of a cell can change with it (the nested streams of a TransformStream, for example), but it stays on one line.

Text that changes outside tables and compact

• A Buffer with an extra own property that holds one of these values: util.inspect(buffer), console.log(buffer) and every other user of the Buffer hook print the property on one line. On main a URL property printed on 14 lines. For URL, TransformStream and PerformanceMark the text is now equal to Node's.
• Error messages that hold an inspected value (ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE, the MessageEvent constructor):
  • A value with an [inspect.custom] hook keeps its text, which is Node's text. 18 of 18 probes are identical to main. The callers pass SingleLineHooks::OwnLayout for this.
  • A value with a native printer prints on one line. On main it printed a mix of both layouts: Received Request (2 bytes) {\n method: "POST",\n url: "http://example.com/",\n headers: Headers { "x-a": "1" }\n Blob (2 bytes)\n }. 18 of 18 probes change.
• The two probe counts are from ad0c6f2, before this branch merged main. inspect.test.js pins one case of each on the merged head.

test.each and describe.each titles

• bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 formats the values of a title in single-line mode (write_inspected, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs:750) and documents it: "Objects and arrays are printed on one line" (docs/test/writing-tests.mdx:407). Its description names the cost: "That changes snapshot keys and what -t matches." It is on main and in no release.
• On main the rule holds for a value that the formatter prints itself. A value with a hook or a native printer misses it, for the cause that this PR removes: %p of a URL is 14 lines and of a Response 9 lines, as on 1.4.4. With this PR both are one line.
• Forms that move: %p, %o, %O, $name, $a.b, the tagged-template form and describe.each. %s moves a Response, Request, File and Blob, and not a URL (its href on both builds). %j, %d, %i and %f do not move.
• Kinds that move: the hook kinds (URL, web streams, PerformanceMark, a user hook that forwards its options) and the native-printer kinds (Response, Request, Blob, File, Bun.file, a FormData that holds a File or Blob). A user hook in a title now gets breakLength and compact.
• What follows the title: the key of a stored snapshot, the junit name and what -t matches.
• Measured with a debug build of this branch merged with main 2596ac5, the canary of that commit and the 1.4.4 release. In a probe of 33 titles, 28 are several lines on main and all 33 are one line on this branch.
• Snapshot keys, with test.each([[new URL("http://example.com/a?b=1")]])("u [%p]", ...) and toMatchSnapshot():
  • Written by 1.4.4: main finds the key, this branch does not.
  • Written by main: this branch does not find the key. A local run passes and adds a key beside the old one (1 passed, 1 added). A CI run fails with Snapshot creation is disabled in CI environments unless --update-snapshots is used.
  • For a plain object, main already ends the released key (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833). For the kinds above, this PR ends it. One run of bun test --update-snapshots writes the new keys.
• An opt-out for titles was weighed and not built. Main would keep a title that its own docs contradict. A URL inside an object would ship as a mixed title that no release has (the object on one line, the URL on 14). A later repair would move those keys a second time. If titles must keep the several-line text, the opt-out has to cover the native printers as well as the hooks.

DOM values in bun:test

• src/runtime/test_runner/dom_format.rs:119 (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833) prints a value that is not a DOM node, inside a DOM collection, in single-line mode. That text is part of a matcher message and of a title.
• A URL or a File in a NodeList or a DOMStringMap printed on several lines there. Now it prints on one line.
• The text that toMatchSnapshot() stores for a DOM value comes from another formatter. It is byte-identical on main and on this branch.

Still multi-line in a cell

The table does not enforce one line. { compact: false } turns single-line mode off.

• Same in Node: an Error (its stack), a hook that returns a multi-line string, a hook that ignores its options.
• Not in Node: MessageEvent and ErrorEvent. In print_event the header writes a line feed, no space follows the member commas, and the text ends with ,}. Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 rewrites those lines.
• BuildMessage and ResolveMessage.
• A string cell with a line feed: Console.table not respecting multiline strings #29082 and Node compatibility: console.table() renders ANSI escape sequences instead of escaping them #32223, open PR console.table: escape control characters in string cells #32224. Not changed here.
• console.table(new Set([url])) prints an empty row where Node prints the value under Values. That is the column model, not the layout.

Default text that stays odd on purpose

Each has a one-line comment in the code and a test row marked known-odd. They are one defect: separators written by hand for each member.

• Request with a body: no comma between headers and the body.
• A sliced Blob or File: a second line feed after offset, and the comma on a line of its own.
• A sliced S3 file with no type: offset on the first line.

Related open PRs

• Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 moves bun:test onto the console formatter. It removes the second ConsoleFormatter implementor, so write_break and single_line conflict there in src/jsc/lib.rs.
• node:buffer: match Node on fill/compare start offsets, detached indexOf, and inspect extras #41498 replaces the Buffer call that passes SingleLineHooks::OneLine with a util.inspect call with the same option pair. If it lands, the enum argument can go.

AOT host table

• b.hostObject(inspectOptionsCell, ...) in src/codegen/builtins/host/runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts tells the ahead-of-time compiler which own properties native code puts on the hook options: stylize, depth, colors. The generator's doc says that an object without otherNames has the listed fields alone. In single-line mode that is no longer exact.
• The row cannot change in this repository alone. AOTBuiltinTableTests.cpp in oven-sh/WebKit (builtin-table/host-uses-of-startup-loads) asserts options->fields.size() == 4 for it. With breakLength and compact added as optional fields, test/aot/engine/native-4.test.ts fails with ASSERTION FAILED: options != table().hostObjects().end() && options->prototype == Builtins::ObjectPrototype && options->fields.size() == 4.
• Without the two fields a compiled program still reads both keys. Six probe programs, each built alone with bun build --compile --aot on a release build of ad0c6f2 without the two fields, print what plain Bun prints. They cover own keys, in, destructuring, for in, JSON.stringify, a hook that only a table calls, a hook that forwards its options to inspect, and the built-in hooks of URL, TransformStream and PerformanceMark. The same holds with --aot-validate and with the run-time checks (run-parallel.ts --checks-at-run-time).
• test/aot/parallel/closed-world/custom-inspect-method-reads-one-line-options.js keeps that true. If the compiler starts to rely on the row, this program fails.
• To make the row exact, add the two fields and change the count in the engine test in the same WebKit update.

Open question

The two option keys are added with putDirectNamed on the cached 3-slot object. That is the extra 32 B allocation. A second cached 5-slot Structure removes it and costs one more lazy field on ZigGlobalObject.

Measurements

Release builds of 34cbc70 (main) and of ad0c6f2 (this branch before it merged main), linux x64. The source diff is the same since then, less the print_array gate that main now has and the two AOT table fields.

• Bun.inspect(value), with and without colors: 0 of 229 kinds differ. A matrix of 59 printer-heavy kinds in 5 positions: 0 of 1,239 outputs without compact differ. bun:test matcher text for 14 kinds: identical.
• compact: true: 52 of 229 kinds change. Kinds that hold a line feed: 63, then 11.
• .text: 108,082,281 to 108,073,577 bytes. Binary: 137,570,424 to 137,562,232 bytes (llvm-size).
• Hook call in default mode: 230 to 238 instructions, 28 to 29 conditional branches (gdb single-step of print_custom_formatted_object and JSC__JSValue__callCustomInspectFunction). The options object is 48 B in 1 cell on both builds.
• Hook call in single-line mode: the options object is 48 B in 1 cell on main, 80 B in 2 cells here (bun:jsc heapStats).
• Native printer in default mode, inclusive instructions: Response 14,534 to 14,754, Request with a body 9,525 to 9,694, File 2,475 to 2,567. The cause is one write_break call for each line, where the break was inline. Keeping it out of line is also what shrinks .text. No allocation is added.
• size_of::<Formatter>() stays 144 bytes (gdb). The new byte fills padding.
• bloaty is not installed. Sizes are from llvm-size and llvm-nm.

Tests

• test/js/bun/console/console-table.test.ts: the six kinds, each through Bun.inspect.table, as a Map value, and through the real console.table in a child process. All 18 fail on main (canary 2596ac5).
• test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js: 21 rows with the default and the compact text of every native printer, stream bodies, BunRequest with params, BuildArtifact, Buffer properties, error messages. 27 of its 28 tests fail on main. The first commit holds only the default-text pins.
• test/js/node/util/custom-inspect.test.js: the options a hook gets in each mode. 1 test fails on main.
• test/aot/parallel/closed-world/custom-inspect-method-reads-one-line-options.js: a compiled program reads the two keys. Built by hand on the debug build (bun build --compile --aot), it prints what plain Bun prints.
• test/js/bun/test/jest-each.test.ts: titles through %p, %o, %O, %s, $x and $y.z, a value inside an object, an array and a FormData, the options that a user hook gets, describe.each, and a seeded snapshot key that a CI run finds. 3 tests fail on main.
• test/js/bun/test/printing/dom-nodes.test.ts: a URL and a File in a made-up NodeList and DOMStringMap, in a matcher message and in a title. 2 tests fail on main.
• Green on the debug build of this branch merged with main 2596ac5: the five test files above.
• Green on the debug build after the earlier merge of main (2b0ace8): test/aot/engine/native-4.test.ts, test/internal/source-lints/.
• Also green on the debug build before that merge: bun-inspect-table, console-log, message-event, url, fetch response, body, blob and body-clone, FormData, archive, s3, buffer, perf_hooks, streams, bun-inspect, util, the node inspect tests, bun-build-api.

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Status

• Reproduced on main (34cbc70, 2b0ace8, 2596ac5) and on 1.4.0 to 1.4.4: console.table([{ c: new URL("http://example.com/a?b=1") }]) prints 18 lines. A one-row table is 5 lines. TransformStream and performance.mark cells print 9 and 11 lines. Request, Response and File cells print 9, 14 and 8 lines on every release, 1.3.14 included.
• On this branch each of the six cells prints 5 lines in console.table and in Bun.inspect.table, as in Node 26.3.0.
• The branch is merged with main 2596ac5 (head 2af302a). On the canary of that commit the new tests fail: 18 in console-table.test.ts, 27 in inspect.test.js, 1 in custom-inspect.test.js, 3 in jest-each.test.ts, 2 in dom-nodes.test.ts. On a debug build of the branch the five files pass.
• Side effect, stated in the description since this push: a test.each or describe.each title prints these kinds on one line, the rule that bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 set for other values. The title is the snapshot key, so a released snapshot key of such a row ends with this PR. A CI run fails until bun test --update-snapshots.
• CI build 138937 on 2af302a: no test failed on every retry. Six test files failed once and passed on a retry or alone, and this diff touches none of them. Four darwin x64 test lanes wait for an agent.
• PR: console.table, Bun.inspect compact: carry single-line mode to inspect.custom hooks and native printers #47593

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Walkthrough

Inspection hooks now receive single-line options when formatting requests one-line output. Runtime value formatters use formatter-controlled breaks for single-line and multiline output. Tests cover hook options, inspected values, table cells, test titles, DOM collection printing, and error messages.

Changes

Single-line inspection formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Custom inspect hook options src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs, src/jsc/bindings/UtilInspect.*, src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/jsc/bindings/{ErrorCode,JSBuffer}.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSMessageEvent.cpp	Formatter options distinguish hooks asked to print on one line from hooks that retain their own layout. The custom-inspect call passes color and single-line flags, which become inspect options. Call sites specify the hook layout setting.
Formatter-controlled breaks src/jsc/lib.rs, src/runtime/api/{Archive,JSBundler}.rs, src/runtime/webcore/{Blob,Body,Request,Response,S3Client,S3File}.rs	ConsoleFormatter adds a break operation that writes a space in single-line mode or a newline and indentation otherwise. The listed value formatters use it instead of fixed line breaks and indentation.
Inspection and console formatting tests test/aot/parallel/closed-world/custom-inspect-method-reads-one-line-options.js, test/js/bun/console/console-table.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js, test/js/node/util/custom-inspect.test.js, test/js/bun/test/{jest-each.test.ts,printing/dom-nodes.test.ts}	Tests check custom-hook options, compact and pretty inspection output, one-line table cells and test titles, DOM collection printing, and formatting in error messages.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Merge Risk: Low · up to 2af30

Compact inspection through custom hooks can omit JSX children and change affected snapshot keys. This is a bounded formatting regression requiring owner awareness or correction.

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The title names the main change: carrying single-line mode to inspect.custom hooks and native printers so console.table and Bun.inspect compact output stay on one line. The objectives describe the same change. The title is long (102 characters) but it is specific and relevant.

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The description follows the repository template's two sections, "What does this PR do?" and "How did you verify your code works?", in substance. The Problem and Fix sections state what the PR changes and why. The Verified and Tests sections name the test files that cover each kind, the platforms, and the snapshot consequences. The description also records the measured effects, the behavior changes outside tables, the AOT host table gap, and the related open PRs. The section headings differ from the template, since the author uses Problem, Fix, Background, Downsides, and Notes. The template's exact "What does this PR do?" heading is absent. The verification section states that inspect.test.js has a platform-specific test that does not run on this machine and defers to CI. That gap is the only open verification item. The description is thorough and mostly complete, so the check passes.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I traced the "\n" + write_indent -> write_break rewrite through all eight native printers against the pre-change source (including the Blob double line feed, the S3File first-line offset, and the Request body without a comma) and the default-mode byte sequence is unchanged; Body::write_format losing its leading write_indent is safe because Response::write_format is its only caller and now emits the break itself. The Rust SingleLineHooks/CustomInspectFlags match the C++ Bun::SingleLineHooks/CustomInspectFlag values and the u8 FFI signatures, and the bun:test ConsoleFormatter impl in src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs inherits the default single_line() == false, so its output is unaffected.

Extended reasoning...

The change spans the Rust console formatter, eight native write_format printers, the C++ inspect-options object handed to [inspect.custom] hooks, and three Bun__inspect_singleline callers, with no security-sensitive surface. It alters user-visible text outside tables (Buffer own-property hooks, error messages that embed a Request/Response/Blob), so a human should weigh those behavior changes alongside the inline findings.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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