New Mini-language element - <trace>

[Adrian Crum-3]

I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid
with development. The element would be used like so:

<trace level="info">
<!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
</trace>

Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
state using the specified log level.

A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
<trace> element to see what is happening internally.

What do you think?

-Adrian

[Jacques Le Roux]

+1, sounds useful (if we finally keep minilang...)

Jacques

From: "Adrian Crum" <[hidden email]>

>I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid
> with development. The element would be used like so:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
> </trace>
>
> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
> state using the specified log level.
>
> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
> <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Adrian
>

[Ankit Jain-2]

+1, Nice one for debugging in xml.

Regards,
Ankit Jain



On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Adrian Crum
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid with
> development. The element would be used like so:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
> </trace>
>
> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal state
> using the specified log level.
>
> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the <trace>
> element to see what is happening internally.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Adrian
>

[Malin Nicolas]

Nice idea.

Just to understand the log element can't be extend to support this
functionnality ?

<log level="info">
<entity-and ....>
<message>the list ${listName}</message>
</log>

Or you want adding a new element trace to separate the log message than
strace process ?

nicolas
Le 07/05/2012 19:51, Adrian Crum a écrit :

> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid
> with development. The element would be used like so:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
> </trace>
>
> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
> state using the specified log level.
>
> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
> <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Adrian
>

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[Adrian Crum-3]

No, the <trace> element would not have a message attribute or any means
of specifying what to log. It is only an /on/off switch. All of the
logging details are in the Mini-language Java code.

So, this Mini-language code:

<trace level="info">
<entity-and... />
</trace>

would produce something like:

2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Performing
find operation on entity "Party" with field Map [partyTypeId="ORGANIZATION"]
2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Find
operation returned 5 items

or if there was an exception thrown, it would produce something like:

2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Performing
find operation on entity "Party" with field Map [partyTypeId="ORGANIZATION"]
2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Exception
thrown during find operation, exception message was "Error: ..."
2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Throwing
MiniLangRuntimeException

-Adrian


On 5/8/2012 9:33 AM, Nicolas Malin wrote:

> Nice idea.
>
> Just to understand the log element can't be extend to support this
> functionnality ?
>
> <log level="info">
> <entity-and ....>
> <message>the list ${listName}</message>
> </log>
>
> Or you want adding a new element trace to separate the log message
> than strace process ?
>
> nicolas
> Le 07/05/2012 19:51, Adrian Crum a écrit :
>> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to
>> aid with development. The element would be used like so:
>>
>> <trace level="info">
>> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
>> </trace>
>>
>> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
>> state using the specified log level.
>>
>> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
>> <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

+1

On May 7, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid with development. The element would be used like so:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
> </trace>
>
> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal state using the specified log level.
>
> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Adrian
>

[Erwan de FERRIERES]

Le 07/05/2012 19:51, Adrian Crum a écrit :

> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to aid
> with development. The element would be used like so:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
> </trace>
>
> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
> state using the specified log level.
>
> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
> <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>
> What do you think?
>

  +1


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www.nereide.biz

[Malin Nicolas]

Thanks a lot adrian for this detail. It's a good enhancement for
debugging mini-lang code
Nicolas

Le 08/05/2012 11:40, Adrian Crum a écrit :

> No, the <trace> element would not have a message attribute or any
> means of specifying what to log. It is only an /on/off switch. All of
> the logging details are in the Mini-language Java code.
>
> So, this Mini-language code:
>
> <trace level="info">
> <entity-and... />
> </trace>
>
> would produce something like:
>
> 2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element:
> Performing find operation on entity "Party" with field Map
> [partyTypeId="ORGANIZATION"]
> 2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Find
> operation returned 5 items
>
> or if there was an exception thrown, it would produce something like:
>
> 2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element:
> Performing find operation on entity "Party" with field Map
> [partyTypeId="ORGANIZATION"]
> 2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element:
> Exception thrown during find operation, exception message was "Error:
> ..."
> 2012-05-08 ... MyServices.xml, Line 243 <entity-and> element: Throwing
> MiniLangRuntimeException
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> On 5/8/2012 9:33 AM, Nicolas Malin wrote:
>> Nice idea.
>>
>> Just to understand the log element can't be extend to support this
>> functionnality ?
>>
>> <log level="info">
>> <entity-and ....>
>> <message>the list ${listName}</message>
>> </log>
>>
>> Or you want adding a new element trace to separate the log message
>> than strace process ?
>>
>> nicolas
>> Le 07/05/2012 19:51, Adrian Crum a écrit :
>>> I am considering adding an element to Mini-language - <trace> - to
>>> aid with development. The element would be used like so:
>>>
>>> <trace level="info">
>>> <!-- code that needs debugging goes here -->
>>> </trace>
>>>
>>> Each contained element will log detailed information on its internal
>>> state using the specified log level.
>>>
>>> A developer trying to debug a block of code can enclose it with the
>>> <trace> element to see what is happening internally.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>>
>>