There's not much you can do to retrieve the locals around an exception with adding a Java Agent. REDL is able to get the locals around uses of redl.core/break, since it's a macro and that's an ability of macros.
On Monday, May 27, 2013 10:10:39 PM UTC-4, Lee wrote: > > > On May 27, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Softaddicts wrote: > > Lets take a real life example, [etc.] > > > > Debugging was not a viable option. [etc.] > > > > This project was extreme in this regard but it prove to me that > reviewing code offline > > and thinking about how to improve it gives much more payback than using > the > > debugger to fix a specific problem. > > Okay, sometimes debuggers don't help... but sometimes they do! And often > it's necessary to step back and think... but sometimes having some key > information (like the value of the arguments to my function, or of some > other locals, that led to the error) makes the thinking a lot more > productive. > > Elsewhere on this thread: > > On May 27, 2013, at 9:36 PM, dgrnbrg wrote: > > For Vim users, I ported the debug repl. This is a tool that allows you > to create a REPL in the middle of the call stack, which allows you to > suspend the evaluation of functions, lazy seqs, etc, and then inspect the > locals and globals at that location. If you've already installed Fireplace, > then you just need add the vim plugin and include redl in your project.clj, > and use :Repl or :ReplHere to create a repl, and then use redl.core/break > and redl.core/continue to use the debugger. You can find the vim component > here: https://github.com/dgrnbrg/vim-redl and the Clojure component here: > https://github.com/dgrnbrg/redl > > This sounds pretty neat... but I also don't use Vim. (It's also not > completely clear to me from this description if you can get the locals from > the context of an error, rather than from a manual suspension.) > > Is there anything that will provide the values of locals at an error > (whether interactively or in a big dump) regardless of the IDE or launch > method that one uses? > > Or if there's nothing that's so general then is there anything that would > work from a call to "lein run" or from Clooj or from Eclipse/CCW? > > Thanks, > > -Lee > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
