Hi Here is a quick note to get people started with an IDE based interactive debugger with the new dev server
You have to fix some code in the Boa Constructor remote debugger, but it does work ;-) 1. Get boa constructor. I am running boa-constructor as installed with apt on xubuntu 12.10 alternately you can get a more up to date fork of boa here https://bitbucket.org/cwt/boa-constructor/overview - you will need wxPython 2. If you use the cwt fork you need to copy xmlrpclib.py from the python2.7 to <path to cwt boa>ExternalLibs the xmlrpclib already there is very old 3. Change the __init__ method of <path to boa>/Debugger/RemoteClient.py to have the following line first xmlrpclib.Transport.__init__(self) 4. create a debug.py file in your project import sys sys.path.append("<path to boa>") #sys.path.append("/usr/share/boa-constructor/") from Debugger.RemoteServer import start start("username","password") 5. Start the dev server (you need the patched one mentioned by Brian Quinlen in this posting https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/ZHHkwr3ok8c/brrsUqwgp4gJ dev server is here https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/downloads/detail?name=devappserver2-v0.8.zip&can=2&q=#makechanges 6. Start this dev server with the --python_startup_script= <somepath>/debug.py argument - path should be where ever the debug.py is also you need to start it with --max_server_instances=1 7. in Boa Constructor under the tools menu select "attach to the remote debugger" -its the first option, do this before you try anything with the dev server, 8. Now set a breakpoint etc in the code editor. 9 Hit the server with a web request and see the debugger stop and code highlighed in the editor. If you don't follow the order - connect to server before running a web request things won't work. It obviously needs lots of work to ensure more reliable startup, but once running works well, when stopped you can also open up the debuggers interactive shell. Hope this helps someone Cheers Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
