[mapguide-users] RE: Debugging tools

[Bruce Dechant]

The server currently does not log any errors to the server error log if
a layer fails to stylize for any reason. This is a confirmed bug and
will be fixed for the Tux SP1. 

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Wilson 
Sent: September 7, 2006 1:18 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] RE: Debugging tools

It seems that what your are seeing is not a framework/coding debug issue
rather a bug in the code where it fails to generate an exception.

This needs to be logged as an artifact if that is the case.

Regards,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim O'Leary [mailto:joleary.public at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:58 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] RE: Debugging tools


Yes, I have error reporting turned on. Actually you can do this without
touching php.ini. Just create a file called, say, "ini_set.php" and put
the following code in it:

  // E_ALL is 8191, E_NOTICE is 8.
  // See
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#errorfunc.constants
  ini_set("display_errors","On");
  $error_reporting =8191 & ~8;
  ini_set("error_reporting",$error_reporting);

Then reference it in each PHP program that you want errors to display:

include "../ini_set.php";

My point, however, is that MagGuide, either through PHP or through some
other exception, did not generate an error at all. It would have been
helpful to get an error message, like,

"You are trying to add a point to a batch property collection, but you
don't have a point definition in your layer definition schema".
       

   
Jason Birch wrote:
> 
> So there was a PHP error that was not returning?
> 
> I believe that the php.ini file that ships with MapGuide has error 
> reporting turned off.  If you turn it on, maybe you would get what you

> need in your case?
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim O'Leary [mailto:joleary.public at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 08:21
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Debugging tools
> 
> 
> Are there any debugging tools for MapGuide OS? When I add an 
> enhancement to an existing sample, the enhancement does not appear but

> there is no indication from the application where the problem lies.
> 
> For example, recently I set out to add point redlining to the line 
> redlining sample, draw_line.php, modifying the code from 
> create_new_point_layer_definition.php and adding it to draw_line.php.
> However, the map continued to redline the lines, but not the points, 
> with no debug messages.
> 
> I got deep into the code and realized I had to add a PointTypeStyle 
> section to the layerDefinition. I could find nothing in the 
> documentation or in the output of the program to indicate that this 
> was the problem. It took me several hours to do this.
> 
> I think that developers who want to use the MapGuide APIs should not 
> have to get into the code at the level of a core developer in order to

> use it. I suspect that many would not have the time to do that. A 
> debugging tool would be most helpful.
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