Debug

VSCode

Some vscode specific debugging tips

• Set Plugin Log Level
• Diagnosing Completion Issues

Components

Plugin Code

You can put a breakpoint directly in any code that's part of plugin-core and it'll break at those points

Kevin's Aside: If you need to debug a related package, I haven't found a good way to put a break point. Instead, I manually insert a debugger statement and vscode will break. Don't forget to remove the debugger statement

Example video

Non Plugin Code

To test non-plugin code, run the debug one test (root) task while having the test file open. Note that breakpoints won't break a lot of the times so if the test isn't breaking, manually add a debugger statement in the code.

CLI Code

Git Related Tests

Any tests that involve setting up git should use GitTestUtils. This will help you create a git workspace with necessary commit history.

You can see it being used here.

If a tests involve a remote git repository, use tmpDir to setup a local remote. Use GitTestUtils to create a repo and then push an dpull to the local remote.

Engine Test

• pre-req:
  • read over the overall design (Private) for Dendron

Testing the engine in Dendron involves a little bit of setup because:

• it requires initializing the engine and seeding it with the right fixture for the test
• it might require the same functionality be tested in multiple environments (plugin, CLI, server, engine, etc)
• it might require using multiple test runners (dendron uses jest for all tests except for the dendron plugin (Private) which uses mocha)

Because of the aforementioned issues, we've created the following two classes to make testing easier and re-usable across environments.

runEngineTest

• setup a mock dendron environment

• initialize the dendron engine

• optionally seed engine with a preset

• NOTE: there are currently multiple versions of this which track multiple generations of engine design

  • the most current version is runEngineTestV5
  • see example of usage here

TestPresetEntry

• code

• this helps us create a TestPreset which is to be used with runEngineTest

• lets you add different lifecycle hooks as the engine is beign initialized

• NOTE: there are currently multiple versions of this

  • the most current version is TestPresetEntryV4

Profiling

To profile code, we use the following pattern

let ctx = "Some Context"
let duration;
const start = process.hrtime();
// ... some event to duration
duration = getDurationMilliseconds(start);
Logger.info({ctx, duration})
AnalyticsUtils.track(VSCodeEvents.Lookup_Show, {
  duration,
  flavor: opts.flavor,
});

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