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Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

# This example demonstrates using the built-in console object.
# The Javascript run in this example is shown below.

# Load the JavaScript from a file.
$sbScript = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $sbScript.LoadFile("qa_data/js_tests/test_console.js","utf-8")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($sbScript.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$js = New-Object Chilkat.Js
$result = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject

# Run the JavaScript
# Results (not console output) go to result.
# Note: Eval returns the completion value of the script. This is generally the value of the last evaluated expression.
# In this case, the last evaluated expression is console.log which does not calculate a value. Therefore, it returns undefined.
$success = $js.Eval($sbScript,$result)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($sbScript.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# We can look at the result, which is "undefined", which is normal and expected.
$($result.Emit())
# The result JSON is: {"type":"undefined","value":"undefined"}

# The console output is retrieved by calling ConsoleOutputSb
$sbOut = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$js.ConsoleOutputSb($sbOut)
$($sbOut.GetAsString())

// Chilkat Js console emits CRLF line endings on Windows, and LF line endings on non-Windows.

console.log("Hello %s, %d, %f", "World", 248, 12.05);
// Output: Hello World, 248, 12.05

// If there are more arguments than the number of specifiers, the extra arguments are output, separated by spaces:
console.log('%s:%s', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz');
// Output: foo:bar baz

// If the first argument does not contain a valid format specifier, outputs a string that is the concatenation of all arguments separated by spaces:
console.log(1,2,3);
// Output: 1 2 3

//If only one argument is passed, it is returned as it is without any formatting:
console.log("%% %s");
// Output: %% %s

const myApp = {
    appName: "Example",
    version: 1.0,
    isDebug: true,
    supportedTypes: ["string", "number", "object"],
    settings: {
        maxWidgets: 1024,
        allowIO: true
    }
};

// %O: Emits the same as JSON.stringify(myConfig, null, 2)
console.log("myApp: %O", myApp);
// Output:
// myApp: {
//   "appName": "Example",
//   "version": 1,
//   "isDebug": true,
//   "supportedTypes": [
//     "string",
//     "number",
//     "object"
//   ],
//   "settings": {
//     "maxWidgets": 1024,
//     "allowIO": true
//   }
// }

console.log("App: %s (Version %d)", myApp.appName, myApp.version);
// Output: App: Chilkat Js (Version 1)