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POMemory leak when logging complex objects
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copied!<p>I am currently busy writting a javascript library. In that library I want to provide some logging about what is going to the console. </p> <pre><code>function log () { if ((window && typeof (window.console) === "undefined") || !enableLogging) { return false; } function currentTime() { var time = new Date(); return time.getHours() + ':' + time.getMinutes() + ':' + time.getSeconds() + '.' + time.getMilliseconds(); } var args = []; args.push(currentTime()); for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { args.push(arguments[i]); } switch (arguments[0]) { case severity.exception: if (window.console.exception) { window.console.exception.apply(console, args); } else { window.console.error.apply(console, args); } break; case severity.error: window.console.error.apply(console, args); break; case severity.warning: window.console.warning.apply(console, args); break; case severity.information: window.console.log.apply(console, args); break; default: window.console.log.apply(console, args); } return true; } </code></pre> <p>The code above presents my log function. When called I provide at least a sevirity, a message and optionally some objects (can be DOM objects like IDBTransaction, IDBDatabase, ...).</p> <pre><code>log(severity.information, 'DB opened', db); </code></pre> <p>Now the problem I have is that this results in a memory leak. The problem is that the objects that I pass stay in memory by the console.log method. Is there a way to avoid this or clean this up?</p>

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