Debugging BLC 3.0v maven modules(like cms,we) from demo site

[surender]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to BLC. I need help in Debugging BLC 3.0v maven modules(like cms,web..etc.) from demo site.

Steps followed to configure.
1. Downloaded BLC 3.0 maven modules from source github i.e. (https://github.com/BroadleafCommerce/BroadleafCommerce).
2. Downloaded Demosite from same github i.e. (https://github.com/BroadleafCommerce/DemoSite)
3. and switched to mysql by changing db parameters and ran through the Jetty successfully. now am able to see both admin and demo site is up and running with mysql stack.

Now my question is how to debug the broadleaf exposed jars from demo site through jetty ?

Below Steps followed to achieve but didn't succeeded.
made it parent child module relationship between Demosite/POM.xml abd admin3 modules. and commented out BLC dependecies from demosite pom.xml. by doing this am not able to install the application.

Please help me on this.

thanks,
Surender Reddy

[phillipuniverse]

Assuming that you're using the ant tasks (jetty-demo, jetty-demo-jrebel) he site application listens on debug port 8000 and the admin application listens on port 8001.

You should be able to connect to them by using a Remote Java Application debug configuration.

[surender]

Thanks a ton . As per your suggestion enabled debug Remote java configuration settings by listening ports on site 8000 and admin is listening on 8001. Now am able to debug the site and admin for BLC 3.0.

Thank you very much once again.

[kushagrajain]

Hi,

Incase if I am using Jetty server only, then how I can debug my html file located under the /template directory of DemoSite project? I have configured the Debug configuration but as you know, in html files we cannot enable breakpoints! So how to know the values of variables like ${customer.anonymous}, say as example. Also, I really am not able to figure out from where this customer variable value is coming from? Please assist!

Would be highly grateful for any help!!

Regards,
Kushagra

[phillipuniverse]

At the moment there is no real good way to debug the view layer code unless you step through various Thymeleaf classes. Thymeleaf also does some dynamic things like automatically make request-scoped variables to you on the model. That is where the customer variable comes from. It is put on the request as a request attribute via the CustomerStateRequestProcessor.