Hi Michele, see also [1]. It depends on how debugging works for the different languages. There are 3 high-level steps (A, B, C):
A. On the action container side, the basic requirement is that there needs to a flag on the docker image(s) to * enable debugging * define the debug port (if selected by IDE) Ideally this could be a standard environment variable, OPENWHISK_DEBUG_PORT or the like, that the various standard OW actions take into account and adjust the command accordingly. Currently, for the nodejs case, wskdebug simply overwrites the node command used on the docker run [2]. There was nothing that had to be changed on the image (and it works with slightly different nodejs container images we use at Adobe for example). B. To get IDE breakpoint debugging to work, wskdebug allows to manually set env vars (--docker-args) or the command (--command) [3], which can be used to leverage A. But if we standardize e.g. on OPENWHISK_DEBUG_PORT, we can adjust wskdebug to do that automatically. It currently detects the debug type/kind based on the kind [4]. Which might not be perfect if you could have different images behind those kinds depending on the specific openwhisk deployment. C. To get automatic code reloading, a bit more has to be done on the wskdebug side, as it needs to understand how to build and mount or redeploy (on the local container) an action for a particular language. So far that only exists for nodejs [5], and manually can be controlled a bit using "--on-build". [1] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdebug/issues/26 [2] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdebug/blob/master/src/kinds/nodejs/nodejs.js#L34 [3] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdebug#help-output [4] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdebug/blob/master/src/invoker.js#L139 [5] https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdebug/tree/master/src/kinds/nodejs Cheers, Alex ________________________________ From: Michele Sciabarra <mich...@sciabarra.com> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 02:18 To: dev@openwhisk.apache.org <dev@openwhisk.apache.org> Subject: What I need to do to add support for wskdebug? I want to update the go runtime to add support for go 1.14 and modules. So I have to review some of the examples and makefiles. In the process I would like to add support for wskdebug. In the current shape, what is required to do that? -- Michele Sciabarra mich...@sciabarra.com
