Python console inside fman that shows plugin errors

[mherrmann]

[kszcode]

Is this a feature request to make a sublime like console in fman so that plugin developpers can debug their application? I was just about to open a feature request for it :)

[mherrmann]

Hey Kuki, yes that's it :)

[mherrmann]

There should also be a command like console.log in web development that allows you to debug plugins.

[mherrmann]

Until console.log is implemented, there is a workaround for Linux and Mac: Start fman from the command line via

• Linux: /opt/fman/fman
• Mac: /Applications/fman.app/Contents/MacOS/fman

Then you can use print(...) in your plugin and see the output in your Terminal window.

[kek91]

That's awesome, would it be possible to achieve that in Windows as well, Michael?

[mherrmann]

I'm afraid on Windows it won't be easy. The reason is that on Windows, each .exe is either a GUI app or a console app. It's not normally possible (except with some trickery) for a GUI app to be attached to a console. I don't think it makes sense to implement this now. I'd rather do the proper console.log implementation so the workaround isn't even required.

[kek91]

I see, thanks for the explanation and I agree with that decision

[oskretc]

Maybe a different topic but a bit related

Is it possible to interact with some of the API modules directly from a python script?. This way you could debug some parts of your code as standalone scripts and the later integrate them as plugins

[mherrmann]

Interesting suggestion @oskretc. Do you have a particular script in mind?

[oskretc]

Something very basic, but it took me quite a while to figure it out

from fman.url import as_human_readable, as_url

print as_human_readable('file:/c:/tmp')
# This throws an error but it took me some time to figure it out.