Vaadin debug window for AWI troubleshooting

[Michael A. Lowry]

The Automic Web Interface is built using the Vaadin web UI framework. This framework provides a debug window that can be enabled by adding ?debug to the application URL, just after the slash following the hostname. E.g.,

https://awi.mycompany.com/?debug#&system=AE_TEST&client=0001

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Vaadin has also published a blog post and video about the debug window. This tool is primarily intended for application developers, but it could also be useful to AWI administrators, e.g., for troubleshooting problems.

[Matthias Schelp]

Hello Michael,

thanks for sharing that information. Had to debug the AWI and vaadin lately, this would have been valuable information.

Matthias

[Tim Quakulinsky]

Hello,

does anyone know if the Vaadin debug window still works in version 12.3? Unfortunately I have not managed to get the window opened yet...

Best regards,
Tim

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[Carsten Schmitz]

Negative on any debug window in my 12.3.1. with that trick (though I didn't know about this before).

There are various ways to disable the debug window in Vaadin, possibly Automic now considers AE to be stable enough not to ship debug builds anymore? :D

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as it being disabled in web.xml, where one could re-enable it. There are various other ways, Java properties and I don't know where they'd go, and as per Google also a Maven option, which is probably issued at build time, which might mean we're possibly SOL.

Might toy around with the options later.