[hunchentoot-devel] resurrect tbnl's debug-value macro?

Thu May 3 18:35:38 UTC 2007

< But yeah there are other ways to do it. I just bring this up to see if
this is something that other hunchentoot users would want to have
built-in >

As mentioned, I did like having it in before. I tend to work in the REPL the
way you describe. I'm curious: when you say "there are other ways to do it,"
what do you have in mind?

Dan

On 5/3/07, Mac Chan <emailmac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> On 5/3/07, Pierre THIERRY <nowhere.man at levallois.eu.org> wrote:
> > The *debug-mode* behaviour won't scale,
> > because you have to be sure there will only be a single HTTP request
> > sent to the server, or the various variables will be overwritten.
>
> While in development, I'll be the only person sending http request, so
> this is a controlled environment. But this is really not the issue
> though. For debugging what Edi suggested is the way to go.
>
> > Just do it yourself, with a handler "leaking" the objects you want to
> > inspect:
> >
> > (defvar *leak*)
> >
> > (defun leaking-handler ()
> >   (setf *leak* (list *request* *reply*))
> >   "<html><head><title>Leaked</title></head><body>Leaked.</body></html>")
>
> No this won't solve the issue that I brought up.
>
> If you test your handler in the REPL, it will complain that *response*
> is not bound.
>
> Your *leak* object won't do any good here, you'll have to manually
> bind *request* to *leak* (and you can't automate this in your handler
> because at that time *request* is dynamically bound and you cannot set
> the global value of *request*)
>
> But yeah there are other ways to do it. I just bring this up to see if
> this is something that other hunchentoot users would want to have
> built-in.
>
> Regards,
> -- Mac
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