[Glass] Improved debugging of continuations from WAObjectLog

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

>  This sounds like a pretty enhancement to the object log inspector! I say
> "ship it!"
>

Dale,

Can you add me as contributor to https://github.com/GsDevKit/Seaside31  so
that I can push my commits?

Thanks,



>
> Dale
>
>
> On 06/02/2015 04:12 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
>  I know we have tODE. Still, sometimes it's very useful to easily/quickly
> debug an error. Using tODE means someone needs to have a Pharo image with
> tODE client, tODE installed in the server, etc...  Of course, this is very
> much needed and worth for many developers. But sometimes, there are
> advanced users that would like a quick debug of the stack. Also, there
> might be a team where not all of them have the knowledge of GemStone...so
> they update the code to GemStone, they try it, and find errors.
>
>  So...for the above reasons, I tried to improve a bit the debugging of
> continuations from WAObjectLog. This is because I can render the component
> from within my webapp. This might be enough for fixing quite some bugs, and
> then let tODE/GemTools for the more complex bugs and for the more
> experienced developers.
>
>  Anyway, from what I see, WAObjectLog prints a dead string of the stack.
> See attached picture called "ObjectLogOld". So what I did now is to modify
> WAObjectLog to add one more column to the table with a "debug" link. The
> debug link will be present only for the object log entries that are
> continuations and should be able to be debugged. See attached
> "ObjectLogNewColumn".
>
>  Now, if I click in "debug" there, it opens a special subclass
> of WAGemStoneWalkback which simply has a "Full Stack" button and then below
> prints the stack. The printing of this stack is of course much better since
> I can see the state of the variables and links to seaside inspectors and
> friends (see file 'ObjectLogNewDebugInspectorOpened').
>
>  So yeah, it is a poor man debugger, but for easy bugs it may be useful
> for a couple of users.
>
>  If you think there could be others interested in this, I can package it
> (it's really little amount of code) and commit it
> to 'Seaside-GemStone-Tools-Production-ObjectLog'  but then I would like
> someone to review it at least.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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