Maintaining the selector property when passing an ender object as argument

[mariomc]

If you pass an ender object as an argument to the ender function, the latter result doesn't maintain the selector property of the previous object.

Take the example:

var x = ender('body');
var y = ender(x);
x.selector; // 'body'
y.selector; // undefined and not 'body'

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[ryanve]

What's your .selector use case? It'd go in the constructor but it seems unneeded because jQuery deprecated .selector.

[mariomc]

Hello @ryanve the use case was strictly for logging/debugging, where a representation of the selector that generated the collection was useful to identify it.

Also in terms of performance, if we have a way to mark the Ender collections - be it selector property or any other - should we need to iterate them again in the constructor?

[ryanve]

@mariomc Consider creating a wrapper around ender() that adds what you need for debugging:

var $ = ender
ender.debug = function() {
  $ = function() {
    var object = ender.apply(this, arguments)
    return object.debug.apply(object, arguments)
  }
}

ender.prototype.debug = function(query, context) {
  // Give `this` extra debugging properties here beforing returning it
  return this
}

Use $ in your code like normal. Call ender.debug() to activate debugging.