On Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:29:02 PM UTC-5, Josh Whelchel (Loudr) wrote: > > Also, to those criticisms of the new log viewer, what's the basis for your > complaints? I love the new viewer and after adjusting to it (admittedly the > transition took a few days) - it's MUCH faster and easier to use. >
To be clear, I am very happy with app engine in general. I like the existing offering very much and want it to either stay the same or to be genuinely improved. I am not a fan of change for its own sake, something which this new logs viewer seems to be an example of. I am calling it out publicly here to alert people to the risks of these kinds of changes, and also perhaps to decrease the odds that the old logs viewer will be scrapped. Based on my brief tests over the last few weeks, here are my complaints so far: - infinite scroll seems to reliably duplicate log entries when long-running requests are involved. Very confusing. - infinite scroll sometimes claims no new logs exist even when we are looking at them in the old logs viewer - expand all button doesn't actually expand all: I still see "show more" links at the bottom of every log entry - "Save As" does not work correctly after expanding a logs entry using said "show more" link (probably because the page's URL is not modified, but that's just a guess) - limit param in url for fetching more than 100 results at once is not supported These are just a few things that I have noticed the new logs viewer breaks relative to the old one (And I use the latest Chrome stable on Win 7, so I doubt my browser is the issue). And, I'm sure there are more regressions that I haven't discovered yet. The one thing I like about the new viewer is the default "fully collapsed" view. Seeing more requests at a glance is handy and that would be a nice backport to the existing appspot logs viewer. But is it worth dealing with all of the above problems for this one new useful feature? Not hardly! -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
