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Debugging JS embedded in a form

cgiuliano — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:21:27 GMT

Hello everyone,I'm struggling to find a convenient way to do debugging on the Java Script code embedded into the dynamic form controls' templates.In many FTL template for form controls (e.g. association.ftl) there is embedded JS to manage some kind of interaction. But when the form is <strong>

Re: Debugging JS embedded in a form

afaust — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:00:42 GMT

Hello,

it depends on how you load the form. If it is part of the page load, you should be able to debug it as any other embedded JavaScript using FireBug. The tricky part comes when the forms is part of a dialog which is loaded asynchronously. I am not really sure you can efficiently debug this with FireBug at all - the best bet here would be to simply add the breakpoints inside of the ObjectFinder JS source instead of trying to debug the embedded JS code.

Regards
Axel

Re: Debugging JS embedded in a form

muralidharand — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:09:46 GMT

Hi,
You can add "debugger" statement in the embedded javascript, and use the developer window / console to debug the javascript.

Re: Debugging JS embedded in a form

cgiuliano — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:05:54 GMT

Thanks Axel for your comments.
They were helpful to make me understand something more about the form mechanism.
Maybe I can try to extract some JS code from the control template and run it from an external JS; then I should be able to debug it as you suggest for the ObjectFinder component.

Regards,
Carlo