Short description
I'm getting used to CakePHP right now and am wondering about how to get more debug-information about what is happening inside the framework.
Let me please explain my situation a little more detailed
As you know CakePHP does a lot for you without putting you into the need to write additional code. One example is the handling of models.
I just created a model User and added validation-rules (no other methods). As described in the API methods like save will just work.
After that I created the needed controller and view to add a new user. When I try to add a user from the view I just receive the flash-message The user could not be created. Please, try again. No validation-violations are flashed.
I also did set the debug-level to 2: Configure::write('debug', 2); but do not receive any errors. The error.log inside \tmp\logs is also empty.
I really do want to learn how to solve those issues in the future.
So what else can I do to debug / display inner processes of cake?
Thank you very much for your help!
DebugKit is an official plugin that gives you lots of information on the request, queries and variables produced by Cake:
https://github.com/cakephp/debug_kit
You can also use trace() and other methods in the Debugger to show what is being executed in the background:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/debugging.html
Use a PHP IDE with an integrated debugger. That will allow you to follow execution line by line as it is executed and even inspect variable values as you go. Netbeans is a free one.
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I've edited some existing visual queries of Blog 4.0 application and when I was debugging it - it worked perfectly. But then on page it stopped working. Any attempt to use key with Data like Data["Posts"] raises System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException. App.Query["Blog Posts List"]["Posts"] returns something, but any attempt to access its fields raises another exception (don't remember the name, but it said that there's no such member inside that object).
I didn't rename queries, I didn't change application settings. I just edited logic of 2 queries. I renamed 1 wiring endpoint name across 3 queries in whole chain.
How do I debug it? How can I see what does cshtml receive from database so I don't guess and put my crystal ball away?
In general, App.Query["Name of Query"] will get you the streams of data. You usually need to convert it using AsDynamic() or AsList() to something you can work with.
This should help some; What is Data?
If you're just running into problems with field names, you probably forgot the AsList or AsDynamic, just like #accuraty-jeremy mentioned.
For real debugging, go to insights, you'll see what happens - but in your case it probably won't help, because your working with an object that's not dynamic (so doesn't support .FirstName) until you AsList/AsDynamic it.
My bad: I confused two different files - _List.cshtml and _List Paging.cshtml. So I was searching for an error in the code of wrong file.
Strange enough that I have to ask such a simple question.
I started automating with UFT and I suppose the correct way to check if for instance my login has worked is to add a checkpoint on the next page.
But how do I do that?
All info I get from google is on how to add an already existing checkpoint to may page. But I don't have any.
Here is how I go about automating:
I add manually the relevant objects to the object repository
I create parameters for my action
I create the code that does the steps on the page
one action per page seems to be fine for me
But in the Object Repository of UFT 14.53, there is no button to add a Checkpoint.
A workaround for me would be to just add another Object and check it's existence and forget about checkpoints. Until I hopefully get an answer here, I will try to do just that.
In UFT there are typically two ways to verify that things are working as expected.
Flow (implicit) - In order to verify that progress in the application is successful (e.g. login) one usually just keeps working with the app, assuming that if the previous step failed, the objects needed for the next steps won't exist and the test will fail due to ObjectNotFound errors
State (explicit) - In order to see that objects have a specific state, checkpoints are usually used. Checkpoints are typically added during a record session, I'm not sure if there's a way to add them directly to the repository. An alternative to checkpoints, which works better with keyword driven testing (no recording), is to use the built in CheckProperty method.
I'm using VS2013/CodedUI and my palybacksetting is as follow:
Playback.PlaybackSettings.LoggerOverrideState = HtmlLoggerState.AllActionSnapshot;
I also have a 3rd party tool that I have integrated to my code that does some action that codedui can't...Iw an to be able to log those steps into the ActionLog.html file with where codedui capture the actions and screenshot.
I searched a lot but didn't find anything on how we can achieve this.
thanks in advance for any help
I posted a response over here: Writing Custom HTML Logs
It sounds like there's not a good way to do this. You can get the path to where the html file lives and write a custom logger from there. I'm not sure it'd be safe to try and write to it while your test is executing, but perhaps once your test is complete.
is there any way to display all the methods called in the codeigniter profiler.
Also like to display which method calls which method and which method trigger the query
Unfortunately, your question is not very clear to me. I am not really sure of what you want to do.
there is a PHP command available in later versions called debug-backtrace.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.debug-backtrace.php
this gives you the stack trace of all commands executed to get to a particular method.
The codeigniter profiler is a system library. If there is a feature you really need it is possible to extend the profiler class to have the functionality you require. the CI manual explains how to do this in the section about 'Extending Native Libraries'
I need to save a file after a succesfully checkout. So I'm using the checkout_type_onepage_save_order_after event. When checking out, it stucks if I have some shitty code in there but it goes nicely if I have valid code in the observer. So it gets called, at least I think it does. Can't test it since it doesn't write my file, doesnt write anything in the log etc. So, what could be wrong? Why doesn't it write some stuff into the log? As I said, with other events it works perfectly. It's a new magento installation.
http://pastebin.com/TWyj6CYt cache is disabled. I'm using 1.5
I suggest you use the following event : sales_model_service_quote_submit_after
This event triggers right after the successful creation of an order.
You can also use Mage::log("Observer called"); just to check if your event observer is being invoked.
I hope this helps you :)
You have a class name Xxx_saveCheckout_Model_Observer. Class name parts usually all have uppercase initial letters, the autoloader expects that. Try changing it to Xxx_SaveCheckout_Model_Observer (with a capital 'S').
Also make sure the config file has a /config/global/models section, although it might be missing from your pastebin on purpose.