[Seaside] Re: The session in the debugger

[Klaus D. Witzel]

Stack search now added and (surprise! :) now it shows seaside's session in  
the debugger (labelled aSession class name).

/Klaus

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:31:23 +0100, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/2/5, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
>> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:10:00 +0100, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> > 2007/2/4, Klaus D. Witzel:
>> >> 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.
>>
>> The debugger sends (aContext receiver) session, which is all it can. Of
>> course the debugger's stack is not the same as aContext's stack, this  
>> can
>> be the cause of nil.
>>
>> > Sorry for not being more clear.
>>
>> NP. Does (self session) in the debugger's left pane (where the ivars  
>> are)
>> return the object that you want?
>
> No
>
>> If not so, then I'll have to dig deeper
>> and find where the stack is switched or else manually traverse aContext
>> sender, or so.
>>
>> Anyways I'll try to reproduce this with the most recent Seaside-dev  
>> image.
>> Which method in that image would be best for provoking this situation?  
>> TIA.
>
> A simple example would be to change #increase in the WACounter to:
>
> increase
> 	1 / 0.
> 	count := count + 1
>
> Which will get you a walback. Click on debug. In the debuger evalutate
> code like:
>
> self session useSessionCookie
>
> Philippe
>
>> /Klaus
>>
>> > 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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