Then help me guys! I am reading the source of the CommonBalancer to find how to ensure I can always hit the same action and the container is unpaused when I want to debug one.
-- Michele Sciabarra mich...@sciabarra.com ----- Original message ----- From: Carlos Santana <csantan...@gmail.com> To: dev@openwhisk.apache.org Subject: Re: Preview of a OpenWhisk IDE & Debugger... and an help request Date: Saturday, February 01, 2020 7:54 PM Very cool feature and demo Michele +1 - Carlos Santana @csantanapr > On Jan 31, 2020, at 8:38 AM, Michele Sciabarra <mich...@sciabarra.com> wrote: > > Hello Whiskers, > > I am working on an integrated IDE & Debugger for OpenWhisk using the > ActionLoop runtime, the standalone OpenWhisk and Eclipse Theia. This would be > complementary to the existing wskdebug for Javascript and Java, as this works > now for Typescript and I plan to add to other actionloop based runtimes. > > You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtGsm4Vnu4 > > I am using the standalone Openwhisk and Eclipse Theia, the in-browser > vscode-like editor that can be deployed as a docker container. > > The mechanic is simple: when I deploy an action I pass an additional > environment variable __OW_DEBUG_PORT > The runtime when it sees this environment variable starts under a debugger. > I can then ask to the runtime the parameters to connect to the debugger and I > use this to connect to the debugger, as you can see in the demo. > > I adapted the upcoming typescript runtime to do this, but I plan to do > similar changes also for other action loop based runtimes, like go and > python. Also I am using a Makefile to start the environment but I am working > on a standalone openwhisk-ide launcher. Unless we add the feature “ide" to > the wsk cli 🙂, if you like the idea... > > I have a couple of problems to solve and I am asking for help. The first > problem is that I need to invoke an action twice as the first time the > debugger does not attach. I guess it is because the image is paused. So I > wonder if it is possible to enable an option that does not pause the > container while running using the standalone openwhisk. And the second > problem is that sometimes I get more than one instance of an action. This > happens when I redeploy. I wonder if it is possible to force the Lean > Balancer to use only one instance of an action. > > All of this of course are options only for development purposes but I think > in this way OpenWhisk would be the ONLY serverless to include also an IDE > with debugger ready to go. No more “serverless actions are hard to debug”. > > -- > Michele Sciabarra > mich...@sciabarra.com
