roarr/src/utilities/stringify.ts

import { configure } from 'safe-stable-stringify';

const safeStringify = configure({
  deterministic: false,
  // The reason for the following values is because it is fairly easy
  // to accidentally pass astronomically large objects to the logger.
  // For context, we were debugging a UI slowdown that was caused by
  // unknowingly trying to pass 5MB worth of data to the logger context.
  //
  // I am starting with hard limits for now to assess the impact of the changes,
  // but we may want to make these configurable in the future.
  maximumBreadth: 20,
  maximumDepth: 10,
  strict: false,
});

export const stringify = (value: unknown): string => {
  try {
    return safeStringify(value) ?? '';
  } catch (error) {
    // The only time I've seen this happen is when the value was excessively large.
    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
    console.error('[roarr] could not serialize value', value);

    throw error;
  }
};