active-handles

Prints out information about the process's active handles, including function source and location.

var activeHandles = require('active-handles');

// run your program, launch a server, call setTimeout or similar
// in order to create some handles and then call the below

activeHandles.print();

Shows handles of multiple types created via examples/mixed.js

Installation

npm install active-handles

Caveats

For any version <= v1.6.2 the setInterval function has to be hooked in order for this to work for setInterval created handles.

In order to do that call activeHandles.hookSetInterval() before any calls to setInterval occurr. This is demonstrated in this example.

Handles of net and http modules log handles from inside core instead of your handle, leaving you to hunt down where you created these connections.

API

activeHandles(options) → {Array.<Object>}

Gathers information about all currently active handles. Active handles are obtained via process._getActiveHandles and location and name of each is resolved.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Argument	Description
options	Object
opts.handles	Array.<Object>=	<optional>	handles to get info for (default: process._getActiveHandles())
opts.source	Boolean	<optional>	include source (default: true), included either way if highlight=true
opts.highlight	Boolean	<optional>	include highlighted source (default: true)
opts.attachHandle	Boolean	<optional>	attaches inspected handle for further inspection (default: false)

Source:

• index.js , lineno 33

Returns:

• handles each with the following properties

  Type

  Array.<Object>

• handle.msecs timeout specified for the handle

  Type

  Number

• handle.fn the handle itself

  Type

  function

• handle.name the name of the function, for anonymous functions this is the name it was assigned to

  Type

  String

• handle.anonymous true if the function was anonymous

  Type

  Boolean

• handle.source the raw function source

  Type

  String

• handle.highlighted the highlighted source

  Type

  String

• handle.location location information about the handle

  Type

  Object

• handle.location.file full path to the file in which the handle was defined

  Type

  String

• handle.location.line line where the handle was defined

  Type

  Number

• handle.location.column column where the handle was defined

  Type

  Number

• handle.location.inferredName name that is used when function declaration is anonymous

  Type

  String

activeHandles::hookSetInterval()

Hooks setInterval calls in order to expose the passed handle. NOTE: not needed in io.js >=v1.6.2 and will not hook for those versions.

The handle is wrapped. In older node versions it is not exposed. The hooked version of setInterval will expose the wrapped callback so its information can be retrieved later.

Source:

• index.js , lineno 110

activeHandles::print(options)

Convenience function that first calls @see activeHandles and prints the information to stdout.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Argument	Description
options	Object
opts.highlight	Boolean	<optional>	print highlighted source (default: true)

Source:

• index.js , lineno 66

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core

A core module which depends only on function-origin can be used. It behaves exactly like the main module except that it doesn't merge opts with default options and provides no highlighting even if highlight is set in the options. Additionally it does not include the print feature.

You can use it as follows:

var activeHandles = require('active-handles/core');
activeHandles();

License

MIT