Function inspectElement

packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/fiber/renderer.js:7044–7205

(
    requestID: number,
    id: number,
    path: Array<string | number> | null,
    forceFullData: boolean,
  )

  }

  function inspectElement(
    requestID: number,
    id: number,
    path: Array<string | number> | null,
    forceFullData: boolean,
  ): InspectedElementPayload {
    if (path !== null) {
      mergeInspectedPaths(path);
    }

    if (isMostRecentlyInspectedElement(id) && !forceFullData) {
      if (!hasElementUpdatedSinceLastInspected) {
        if (path !== null) {
          let secondaryCategory: 'suspendedBy' | 'hooks' | null = null;
          if (path[0] === 'hooks') {
            secondaryCategory = 'hooks';
          }

          // If this element has not been updated since it was last inspected,
          // we can just return the subset of data in the newly-inspected path.
          return {
            id,
            responseID: requestID,
            type: 'hydrated-path',
            path,
            value: cleanForBridge(
              getInObject(
                ((mostRecentlyInspectedElement: any): InspectedElement),
                path,
              ),
              createIsPathAllowed(null, secondaryCategory),
              path,
            ),
          };
        } else {
          // If this element has not been updated since it was last inspected, we don't need to return it.
          // Instead we can just return the ID to indicate that it has not changed.
          return {
            id,
            responseID: requestID,
            type: 'no-change',
          };
        }
      }
    } else {
      currentlyInspectedPaths = {};
    }

    hasElementUpdatedSinceLastInspected = false;

    try {
      mostRecentlyInspectedElement = inspectElementRaw(id);
    } catch (error) {
      // the error name is synced with ReactDebugHooks
      if (error.name === 'ReactDebugToolsRenderError') {
        let message = 'Error rendering inspected element.';
        let stack;
        // Log error & cause for user to debug