Re: [Pydev-code] Using Pydev remote debugging code in other projects

[Fabio Z. <fza...@ap...>]

> Hi,
>
> We are building ACE editor (Javascript) based mini-IDE for Plone CMS.
>
> Currently we are doing "remote" debugging by having an auxilirity HTTP
> server inside Plone process in another thread and then this server
> controls pdb.
>
> Would it make sense to use PyDev remote debugging modules instead of
> our own implementation? Are there any generic "remote debugging" tools
> for Python?
>

Hi Mikko,

I think that it'd make sense using the PyDev debugger in that scenario
-- it should be a pretty 'generic' remote debugging tool :).

And it should be straightforward to integrate it -- you can take a
look at some unit-tests to guide with examples:
https://github.com/aptana/Pydev/blob/master/plugins/org.python.pydev.debug/pysrc/tests_python
-- the test_debugger.py is the main file there).

The files https://github.com/aptana/Pydev/blob/master/plugins/org.python.pydev.debug/pysrc/pydevd_comm.py
has the CMD_* constants showing most of the control you should care
about ( all the commands received externally are handled through
pydevd.py/PyDB/processNetCommand -- and some of those CMD_* constants
should be handled in the client).

It should be a matter of calling pydevd.settrace() with the proper
parameters in the thread you want to trace (and having a proper client
as the UI for the debugger).

Cheers,

Fabio

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