[Seaside] Re: The session in the debugger

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/2/4, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:19:00 +0100, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > One of the most annoying things about Seaside for me is that you can't
> > access the session in the debugger. Often when debugging code that
> > needs to access some session data I find myself writing code like
> > this:
> >
> > aBuggedMethod
> >     "some code"
> >     session := self session.
> >     self halt.
> >     "more code"
> >
> > and then restarting the method. I am sick of it. This just sucks. So
> > recently I meant someone with too much time who would like to make a
> > valuable contribution to Seaside. I told him about this and he said he
> > would do it if I find at least 5 people to whom it is important.
>
> Counting someone at our table in Bern plus /my, you've found five people :)
>
> Attached is a .cs which shows (self session) in the debugger (same place
> as in Michel's VW solution) only if (aContext receiver respondsTo:
> #session). #session seems not to be implemented in the stock image. When
> the session item is selected it can be inspected but update with #accept
> does not update.
>
> > Personally I don't care how ugly the solution is as long as Seaside
> > still works. It doesn't have to be a general solutions. It can be a
> > very evil changeset that causes famine, plague, small pocks and
> > shortens life by 10 years. That desperately I want it.
>
> Tested it on 3.7/8/9, let me know how it works.

Yes there is a session variable in the debugger but it is nil. That is
not what I meant. What I want is being able to do:

self session

in the debugger and it returns the session instead of nil.

Sorry for not being more clear.

Philippe

> If someone needs the name emphasized in the debugger, please post how
> you'd like to have it.
>
> /Klaus
>
> > If you feel the same way raise your hand now.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
>
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