Juju debug-code
(added in Juju 2.8)
Maybe this is just a section of Debugging charm hooks
Many of our charms are written in python, which has nice facilities for live debugging of code pdb. For the Operator Framework, we wanted to provide a nice way to not just get a shell where you can run the hook from bash, but actually drop you all the way into a pdb shell.
For charmers, the main difference between juju debug-hooks
and juju debug-code
is that once the tmux session is established, it executes the hook as normal, but with the environment variable JUJU_DEBUG_AT
set. Charms can look for that environment variable and chose to drop into a debugger based on the value.
Hook names
Like juju debug-hooks
, juju debug-code
takes a list of hooks to debug, and will run all other hooks as normal. (eg, if you just want to debug config-changed
, you can specify juju debug-code unit/0 config-changed
.) This helps developers avoid having to manually interact with all the other hooks that Juju might fire before running the one they are interested in debugging.
JUJU_DEBUG_AT
The Charm is responsible for interpreting the meaning of the environment variable JUJU_DEBUG_AT
. The default set by juju is "all"
. Users can set a different value by supplying juju debug-code --at LOCATION
.
Operator Framework
For Operator Framework charms, the framework interprets the string as a comma separated list of named breakpoints, with reserved keywords for all
and hook
. Charm developers can create their own breakpoints by calling self.framework.breakpoint(name=None)
, passing an optional name.
For the default value of all
, the python interpreter will drop into pdb for each handler of a hook, and for the all named and unnamed breakpoints that are encountered while running the code.
If the value is set to hook
, then only the handlers for a given Juju hook will trigger a breakpoint. Unnamed and named breakpoints will be skipped.