Re: jdb bug and quick fix

Ke Lu <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:16:09 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.jdee
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry,I didn't say anything about remove jdb from jdee.
My advice is remove jdebug.(not jdb)
There are three type of debugger in jdee,
jdb,old jdb and jdebug.

Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Paul Landes wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:15:50 -0600
>> From: Paul Landes <[email protected]>
>> To: Ke Lu <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: jdb bug and quick fix
>>
>> We should at least take a poll as to who might be using a feature
>> before we just start removing things.
>>
>> Have we asked who might be willing to maintain it first?
>>
>
> Thank you.  You can count me among those who would be extremely
> dismayed if jdb were removed.  What is the point of removing it?  If you don't
> like it, don't use it.  Linux is about choices.  But I assume too much; perhaps
> Ke Lu is a windows, solaris or mac user.
>
> I am willing to take part in maintaining JDEE.  Taking on the job all by myself
> would be a bit much.  Can we get a short list of folks who are
> willing to take part in a maintenance committee?
>
>>
>> Ke Lu writes:
>> > Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]> writes:
>> >
>> > > I prefer jdb over jdebug because jdb has enough functionality for 99%
>> > > of my debugging needs, and less gizmos and knobs in the way.  (Jdebug
>> > > is indespensible for some situations.)  But there is a bug that
>> > > affects code-stepping in jdb.  You can step through code, but the
>> > > pointer in the left gutter of the source buffer cannot track the
>> > > current line because of a stringp type error.  The error occurs during
>> > > the routine for finding the source buffer.  Here's the quick fix:
>> > >
>> > > In jde-util.el, the function (jde-find-class-source-file) has these as
>> > > the first 2 lines:
>> > >
>> > >   (let* ((verified-name (jde-parse-class-exists class))
>> > >          (outer-class (jde-remove-inner-class verified-name))
>> > >
>> > > This would be good if (jde-parse-class-exists) returned a string, but
>> > > it returns a boolean instead.  The call to (jde-remove-inner-class)
>> > > throws a '(type stringp nil) error as a result.  Change the code to:
>> > >
>> > >   (let* ((verified-name (jde-parse-class-exists class))
>> > >          (outer-class (jde-remove-inner-class class))
>> > >
>> > > `class' is the passed-in string argument to
>> > > (jde-find-class-source-file).  This is the quick fix.  It seems to
>> > > work like it needs to.  But this makes the logical flow in this
>> > > function less than ideal.  If we're going to call
>> > > (jde-parse-class-exists) to validate the input, we should do something
>> > > with that validation before doing more stuff, or fail gracefully.
>> > > Something like:
>> > >
>> > >   (if (jde-parse-class-exists class)
>> > >     (let ((outer-class (jde-remove-inner-class class)))
>> > >       (do-stuff)
>> > >       ...)
>> > >     (signal-no-src-found class))
>> > >
>> > > I will try to spend some time refactoring this function and submitting
>> > > it for review.
>> > >
>> > > Carlos Konstanski
>> > It seems jdee will be moved to sourceforge this weekend.
>> > I agree the jdebugger is not too stable to use and
>> > I advice to remove it in the future.
>> > Another problem is:
>> > jdb in jdee can't work well when The user.language is not en.
>> > My advice is:
>> > if it is difficult to parse muti-lanuage msg of jdb's output,
>> > Please set -J-Duser.language=en to jdb options by hard coding,
>> > (including options of nomal debug, attach to socket and attach to share memory)
>> >
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Landes
>> [email protected]
>>
>
> Carlos Konstanski