Hi Ben,

A couple of questions:

1. How does the embedder know what reponse to send to the debugger? 
v8::Debug::SendCommand() doesn't return anything.

2. Do you know if the debug protocol change will affect V8's debugging API?

Thanks!

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 4:33:10 PM UTC-4, Ben Noordhuis wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Petar Dobrev <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hello! 
> > 
> > I'd like to add debugger support to an application that uses v8 and 
> tried 
> > following the resource on the topic from the wiki: 
> > https://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/AddDebuggerSupport 
> > 
> > However, it seems that in v8-debug.h in trunk 
> > (https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/include/v8-debug.h) 
> there 
> > is neither v8::Debug::EnableAgent, nor 
> > v8::Debug::SetDebugMessageDispatchHandler. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know what the current API to achieve that is? 
>
> You feed in JSON debug commands[0] with v8::Debug::SendCommand(). 
> It's safe to call from another thread; the main thread will interrupt 
> currently executing JS code in order to process the debug command. 
>
> If the main thread spends most of its time in native code, then call 
> v8::Debug::ProcessDebugMessages() periodically to flush queued 
> commands. 
>
> Everything else, like creating a listen socket and managing 
> connections from debugger clients, is up to the embedder.  The wire 
> representation of the debug protocol looks a lot like HTTP, but with 
> the notable differences that: 
>
> 1. There is no status or request line, and 
>
> 2. The server (the process being debugged) sends headers first.  They 
> look like this: 
>
>   Type: connect 
>   V8-Version: 3.26.33 
>   Protocol-Version: 1 
>   Embedding-Host: node v0.13.0-pre 
>   Content-Length: 0 
>
> It should be noted that V8's native debugger protocol is being phased 
> out in favor of Chromium's remote debugger protocol; for a longer-term 
> solution, that's probably what you want to be looking at. 
>
> Hope that helps! 
>
> [0] https://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/DebuggerProtocol 
>
> [1] https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/debugger-protocol 
>

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