How to debug custom assertion ?

[Michael Mueller]

Hi Team.

 

I'm currently developing a custom assertion, and running into some trouble.

 

What is the best approach to debug my code?

Is it possible to influence the java runtime parameters of the gateway to activate remote debug capabilities, so that I would be able to debug my assertion remotely in my eclipse environment?

Or are there different approaches for debugging.

I'm currently running into a null pointer exception when the assertion gets executed, and I have no idea where this might come from. So it would be of great help to debug the code step by step.

 

Another approach would be to enrich my code with logging statements to be able to follow the code execution. But I did not find  specific hints regarding logging from within  a custom assertion.

 

Any hint/suggestion/help is welcome

Regards

..........Michael

[Michael Mueller]

just found

SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/etc/profile.d/ssgruntimedefs.sh

which might be applicable to add remote debug parameters like:

-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:server=y,transport=dt_socket,address=4000, suspend=n

 

What do you think?

.......Michael

[Michael Mueller]

I gave it a try:

I added the following line to /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/etc/profile.d/ssgruntimedefs.sh :

default_java_opts="$default_java_opts -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:server=y,transport=dt_socket,address=4000,suspend=n"

I restarted the gateway service with "service ssg stop" and"service ssg start".

I added a firewall rule through Policy Manager for port 4000

 

I created a remote debug configuration in my eclipse:

 

And that's it. eclipse is able to connect to the Gateway debug port 4000 , I'm able to set breakpoints and able to debug my stuff in a very convenient way through eclipse.

 

Of course I did and would do this only in a local / private dev environment !

 

regards

............Michael

[Willard Jansen]

This is great. Thanks for sharing!!