Debugging in IntelliJ?

[Mike Hearn]

I'd like to use the very convenient SuperDevMode but connect it to a debugger via IntelliJ. There are instructions for Eclipse and NetBeans, but I tried to adapt them to IntelliJ and it didn't work - breakpoints do not have any effect.

Has anyone else solved this before?

[Raphael André Bauer]

Hi Mike,


that's technically not (yet) possible. But you can simply use jetty
and run your application via mvn jetty:run, connect your debugger and
debug your app...

What I personally often do is to run testcases to debug my
application. That works perfectly fine (because running testcases
never uses the SuperDevMode).

Also have a look at: https://github.com/ninjaframework/ninja/issues/202

Cheers,


Raphael

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[Stéphane Cl]

Hello Mike,

To add to Raphael Bauer's answer, IntelliJ lets you debug maven goals, you just need to select jetty:run in the dropdown and click the debug icon. You should not need to configure anything or attach a debugger manually.

I use it the following way : I run superdevmode in a shell window from the command line, this is convenient enough for most of the normal job. When I need breakpoints, I "ctrl-c" superdevmode in the shell and launch jetty-run from Intellij. I tried running superdevmode from intellij directly but for some reasons (perhaps related to my setup) it did not seem to work nicely, I didn't bother. After 2 years of play2 development, I am used to running IDEs and build tools separately.

I also spent some time trying to connect my debugger to superdevmode, I guess a word about the fact that it's technically not possible would be welcome in the documentation.

Kind regards