How to setup a jenkins plugin debug environment on windows 8.1?

[Ivo Bellin Salarin]

Well,

I would try to setup a debug environment for a jenkins plugin (git-client-plugin) on windows 8.1.

But I'm failing at it, and I don't know how to proceed.

So far: I have installed netbeans 8.0.1 and the sources of git-client-plugin from github. I have built the sources using netbeans/maven, and I am able to run jenkins using mvn hpi:run.

But: 

1) NetBeans doesn't propose me to debug the plugin. The debug button is grayed out.

2) Git-client-plugin is part of a chain of plugins. The final user of this plugin chain is git-plugin. If I deploy git-plugin and all of its dependencies, I get other exceptions, like "cycle detected (git-client -> git-server -> git-client)"

3) deleting git-server, I get an error concerning the absence of git-client 1.11.1...

Well, do somebody have noob instructions about how to setup a debug environment for git-client-plugin?

thanks in advance,

Ivo

[Mark Waite]

I have a Windows 8 machine that I use occasionally.  I have never tried to configure a debug environment on it.  If you don't get an answer from anyone else in the next 24 hours, I may be able to provide some hints / steps / instructions.

I won't be able to assist with debugging multiple plugins in a single debugging session, because I've never done that.  I'm confident it is possible, I've just never done it.

My experience with git-plugin and git-client-plugin development on Windows was somewhat frustrating.  As far as I could tell, most Jenkins core developers develop on Linux.  That means they don't generally see the file system locking related exceptions thrown in tests on Windows.

I still run git-plugin and git-client-plugin tests on Windows, but my primary development environment is a Ubuntu 14.04 machine with an SSD.  It runs much faster than any of my Windows machines ever did.

Mark Waite

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Thanks!

Mark Waite

[James Nord]

I use eclipse but it should be very similar as outlined at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+tutorial#Plugintutorial-DebuggingaPlugin

the bits that is missing is in eclipse I then "attach to a process" and add the source location from my local workspace...

/James

[Ivo Bellin Salarin]

Let me give you some more information:

I have been able to attach NetBeans to the Jenkins instance. (thanks, James Nord).

But, there's something strange in the git-client.hpl that I can find in the work\plugins\git-client.hpl. Here's an excerpt:

Manifest-Version: 1.0

Group-Id: org.jenkins-ci.plugins

Short-Name: git-client

Long-Name: Jenkins GIT client plugin

Url: http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Client+Plugin

Plugin-Version: 1.12.1-SNAPSHOT (private-12/08/2014 13:41-BELLINSALARIN)

Hudson-Version: 1.509

Jenkins-Version: 1.509

Plugin-Dependencies: ssh-credentials:1.10,git-server:1.5,ui-samples-plugin:1.509

Plugin-Developers: Nicolas De Loof:ndeloof:nicolas...@gmail.com,Ma

 rk Waite:markewaite:mark.ea...@gmail.com

The line Plugin-dependencies lists git-server and ui-samples-plugin. This hpl differs from the MANIFEST-MF that I can find in the git-client.hpi. How's that possible? How is it generated?

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[Ivo Bellin Salarin]

The pom.xml file is responsible for this dependency. 

Changing the pom.xml to comment out this dependency, I get a 
java.lang.Error: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

while calling descriptior.Save()

        DescriptorImpl descriptor = (DescriptorImpl) Jenkins.getInstance().getDescriptor(GitTool.class);

        GitTool[] installations = getInstallations(descriptor);

        if (installations != null && installations.length > 0) {

            //No need to initialize if there's already something

            return;

        }

        String defaultGitExe = Functions.isWindows() ? "git.exe" : "git";

        GitTool tool = new GitTool(DEFAULT, defaultGitExe, Collections.<ToolProperty<?>>emptyList());

        descriptor.setInstallations(new GitTool[] { tool });

        descriptor.save();

any ideas to pass further ?

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[Mark Waite]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Ivo Bellin Salarin <ivo.bell...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let me give you some more information:

I have been able to attach NetBeans to the Jenkins instance. (thanks, James Nord).

But, there's something strange in the git-client.hpl that I can find in the work\plugins\git-client.hpl. Here's an excerpt:

Manifest-Version: 1.0

Group-Id: org.jenkins-ci.plugins

Short-Name: git-client

Long-Name: Jenkins GIT client plugin

Url: http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Client+Plugin

Plugin-Version: 1.12.1-SNAPSHOT (private-12/08/2014 13:41-BELLINSALARIN)

Hudson-Version: 1.509

Jenkins-Version: 1.509

Plugin-Dependencies: ssh-credentials:1.10,git-server:1.5,ui-samples-plugin:1.509

Plugin-Developers: Nicolas De Loof:ndeloof:nicolas...@gmail.com,Ma

 rk Waite:markewaite:mark.ea...@gmail.com

The line Plugin-dependencies lists git-server and ui-samples-plugin. This hpl differs from the MANIFEST-MF that I can find in the git-client.hpi. How's that possible? How is it generated?

I'm not a maven expert, but I wonder if the git-server is inserted in one place and not another because it is a test dependency.  The git-server dependency is not required outside of tests.

Mark Waite

 

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