Hi, having upgraded my live HA system to 0.19.2 and starting to look at some enhancements made possible due to newer features, I've discovered a slight oddity in the context sidebar.
The following flow shows details about the process that is running the Node-RED service.
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I've changed the debugMaxLength setting to be 2048 and so the debug output shows the whole string. However, the context sidebar truncates the end of the string (which is 1062 characters):
It should look like:
Also weirdly, the exec node I was using had nothing selected for the "output" mode - presumably because it was copied from an older version of Node-RED which didn't set that parameter. It seems to have defaulted to spawn mode though since when I deliberately set it to spawn mode, I get an even stranger output. I only get 1061 characters output when in spawn mode though I can't see any visible difference in the debug output. There is a slight difference in the context output though:
Not sure if this is all expected behaviour or just an edge case?
