Re: How can I setup a dev environment for OTRS?

Hello, following this guide I was able to debug OTRS.


http://www.epic-ide.org/downloads/EPIC_User's_Guide.pdf 
<http://www.epic-ide.org/downloads/EPIC_User%27s_Guide.pdf>

I agree that it is important to have a debugging because perl has a 
number of environment variables difficult to know the contents of the 
trace or with logs or other

Bye
Rocco


Il 11/09/2012 9.09, Bogdan Iosif ha scritto:
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I was "afraid" of that. I'm familiar with this type of debugging from 
> writing shell scripts running under Jenkins but I've never done 
> debugging like that for a code base as large as OTRS seems to be.
>
> With shell scripts it was, kind of, simple to assess if the code is 
> valid because I knew exactly where the script will be invoked from and 
> my only concern was to explore the context of the call (mainly env 
> vars). With these Perl scrips, without an IDE that halts execution on 
> a breakpoint or a possibility to statically explore all callers on an 
> object's method, I find it hard to imagine how I can ensure a change I 
> make on some of the code OTRS ships with will not break some code 
> paths or, worse, produce undesirable side effects.
>
> I assume you mean Apache HTTPD's STDERR. I'll try to setup Fred. I 
> hope this info is still valid 
> (http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/dev/2007-October/001728.html) because 
> I haven't found much else in the form of a guide on how to use / 
> install it.
>
> /bogdan
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Michiel Beijen 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Setting up the 'dev' environment is pretty much the same as setting up
>     a 'regular' OTRS environment; you would set up an OTRS environment
>     including database and web server on your local machine.
>
>     For editing the files you can use pretty much any editor, some people
>     use complete IDE's such as ActiveState's Komodo IDE, Eclipse EPIC or
>     similar, or Padre, some people prefer to use text editors such as vim
>     with lots of plugins, or even simply Notepad++.
>
>     If you do OTRS development you typically do not use a debugger all
>     day; and inspecting elements can be achieved by printing them to
>     STDERR and looking in the server error log and/or using Fred
>     (http://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/develtools/packages/); or by logging
>     them to the LogObject in OTRS.
>
>     Hope this helps.
>
>     --
>     Mike
>
>     On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bogdan Iosif
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm trying to setup a dev env for OTRS on Windows and I'm new to
>     Perl. After
>     > some poking around for a few days trying to understand Perl
>     distributions
>     > and development, I'm still pretty much where I started.
>     >
>     > If a guide for setting up a specific dev env is available, can
>     someone
>     > please provide me with its URL?
>     >
>     > If such a guide is not available, please help with the following
>     direct
>     > questions:
>     >
>     > Is OTRS dev normally done via an IDE, and if so what is the
>     preferred one? I
>     > tried to find an ide-project like grouping in the OTRS sources
>     and couldn't
>     > spot one.
>     > Is it possible to load all the source files in an editor capable
>     of finding
>     > method / object definitions? (I don't mean full text search but
>     something
>     > like Intellisense)
>     > Is interactive debugging possible for OTRS? By this I mean setting
>     > breakpoints and exploring values for variables when a breakpoint
>     is hit.
>     > Is there such a thing as syntax check, source compilation or
>     unit testing so
>     > that I can be as sure as possible that changes I've made do not
>     immediately
>     > crash when they are executed?
>     >
>     > I'm familiar with the dev workflow from Visual Studio (C#) and
>     Eclipse
>     > (Java) and hoping to achieve something similar with OTRS, if
>     possible. If
>     > someone can answer and is also familiar with those IDEs, please
>     use them for
>     > comparison.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Bogdan
>     >
>     > What I've already done:
>     >
>     > - Got the sources from a zip package
>     > (http://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/otrs-3.1.9.zip) because a direct
>     CVS link
>     > doesn't work from my organization (port 2401 is blocked).
>     >
>     > - Looked over the dev manual
>     >
>     (http://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/doc/doc-admin/3.1/en/pdf/otrs_admin_book.pdf)
>     > and Searched the mailing lists
>     (http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/dev/) with
>     > Google. Couldn't find any references to an IDE.
>     >
>     > - Found info about debugging a running OTRS env by enabling a
>     debug mode
>     > where I would get a lot of info logged to files.
>     >
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