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["Vaze, Mandar" <Mandar.Vaze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Salman,

I haven't used UI tools like Pydev and/or eclipse. I have a devstack installation running on linux box where I use ssh for all my development.

TL;DR Version : I use pdb (aka Python Debugger) It is very easy to use if you have used gdb - (Refer to  http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html#debugger-commands if you are unfamiliar with pdb)

Longer Version:

*         To trace how the "allocate_for_instance" works for Quantum -  put "pdb.set_trace()" in method "def allocate_for_instance" in file nova/network/quantum/manager.py

You also need "import pdb" somewhere at the top in the same file.


*         Stop and restart nova-network process from "screen" (So that modified nova/network/quantum/manager.py is used.)


*         Try to create an instance (which eventually needs to allocate fixed IP for the instance) Now go to "nova-network" console - as soon as RPC call is made to the method "allocate_for_instance" , execution will stop and you are presented with (pdb) interactive prompt - From here on you can debug using pdb commands


-Mandar


From: openstack-bounces+mandar.vaze=nttdata.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:openstack-bounces+mandar.vaze=nttdata.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Salman Malik
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:49 PM
To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Openstack] Development/Debugging

Hi All,

I have been trying to get my head around the OpenStack functionality for a while now but unfortunately haven't been able to grasp it. I am interested on working on Quantum (and may be creating new plugins) but I am still unable to debug my own problems. So I thought it would be best for me to learn from how code works. Although I have been looking at the code for quite some time but didn't get anywhere. Now I have installed Pydev on Eclipse and am wondering how to run the massive OpenStack code in debug mode (so as to learn the call/control flow) ? So I thought I could get some help from OpenStack gurus like how do you people develop/debug problems ? What environment are you using ? Any suggestions/tips are welcome.
(Please note that I have read the nova and Quantum administration guides and also looked at the nova developer's guide)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Salman

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