[Glass] tools/objectLog web tool and stack traces?

[James Foster]

While it is not quite like being local, I find it acceptable. I believe that it is much better than GemTools, but you would have to try it for yourself.

On Nov 27, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> That looks like the same functionality as the "Debug" menu from GemTools. This is unusable for me (because it is very very very slow to actually debug) for a remote server.
> Do you know if Jade performance is good enough for debugging an object log of a remote gemstone?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:03 PM, James Foster <james.foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> I use Jade (on Windows) to look at the object log. There is a menu option on the Transcript for ‘Browse Object Log (<Ctrl>+<L>)’. This opens a debugger on the stack so you can inspect the stack frames. You can’t however, edit and continue.
> 
> James
> 
> On Nov 27, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I was quite amazed with GemTools and how I could debug my local gemstone. But when I tried to connect to a remote instance, I understood what you said it was slow ;)
>> So for the "porting" of my app, I have no problem because I can do everything with my local gemstone and then with topaz and metacello I load stuff in my remote gemstone.
>> 
>> But there is one thing I miss about GemTools and a remote instance: debug problems. I know I could copy the extents to my machine and debug it here, but moving the extents over the wire can take me several hours. 
>> 
>> So....I wonder, which are all possibilities we have to debug a problem in a remote GemStone? Say a typical seaside walkback. 
>> 
>> 1) I guess logs. I am still a bit lost in which log the stack traces of an error is stored. I checked in /opt/gemstone and I don't seem to find them. I am talking about something like the PharoDebug.log
>> 
>> 2) ObjectLog. I saw there is a web tool WAObjectLog but I can see only the log..I cannot seem to see the stack traces
>> 
>> Since I am still porting the app, it is likely most of my problems will be DNUs or something like that. So it is likely that a simple stack trace would help.
>> But...say that at some point I would really like to really debug it, which options do I have besides copying the extens to my local gemstone?
>> Dale, is it tODE ready for this? (debug from the Object Log)
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>> 
>> 
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