console.dir doesn't respect depth option

[xamgore]

According to the Node.js documentation, a depth option can be passed to console.dir:

Tells util.inspect() how many times to recurse while formatting the object. This is useful for inspecting large complicated objects. To make it recurse indefinitely, pass null. Default: 2.

Imagine we run the code below. Jest 26.0.0 sequentially prints the arguments with depth 3 and ignores the depth option.

console.dir(deepObject, { depth: 5 })

There is a stack overflow discussion with a bug explanation. Briefly, maxDepth option is not passed to the prettyFormat function.

[SimenB]

@xamgore wanna provide a PR for that? Code is here: https://github.com/facebook/jest/blob/852819abc0de900f6d8ebb417e7d4fc3d7e647aa/packages/jest-console/src/CustomConsole.ts#L78-L80

[xamgore]

@SimenB yeah, I'd like to. Could you, please, explain where the "util" module is located?

1. Replace the call of format function with formatWIthOptions, though it's been added in Node v10.0.0. What is ok, as Jest provides support only for Node ≥ 10.

2. Replace the call with prettyFormat.

[SimenB]

util is a node core module https://nodejs.org/api/util.html

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