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Proposed solution¶

This is happening because the chit only expects to render a string there, so when it gets handed a complex object it stringifies in the usual JavaScript way.

While we don't often use complex properties and there's maybe a discussion to be had about this specific application, kind of the whole point of properties is that they're arbitrary, so it's worth improving how Workbench handles this.

In general we talked about offering some way to click the chit to see the full value. One wrinkle with that is clicking the chit currently copies to clipboard, so we don't want to make it ambiguous what's going to happen when you click. So, the proposed solution is to make the chit have no action associated with clicking the chit itself, and the display of the chit is:

• Property name: as now
• Property value: for simple values, the string as now. For complex value, an icon (an eye?) that you can click to pop up the full value.
• A "copy to clipboard" icon: like we have elsewhere throughout the UI. This should copy only JSON representation of the value to your clipboard, and nothing else.