Method for multi-language debugging
View Patent ↗Software developers working on multi-language systems can utilize a multi-language debugging environment. The debugging environment can be uniform across languages, and can seamlessly perform debugging between one or more languages in a multi-language environment. Such a system can have a number of attributes intended to help developers facing debugging problems in multi-language environments.
1. A method for debugging in more than one programming language with a multi-language debugger, comprising:
debugging a source code file which contains multiple nested languages;
interpreting multiple nested languages within a single source file and displaying each of the multiple nested languages in a debugging frame;
editing each language in a debugging frame; and
wherein the multi-language debugger uses a standardized interface for a script engine and all communications with the script engine will be through calls to a script debug controller.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multi-language debugger is extensible and a user can add language definitions to support additional languages.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein if more than one language appears on a stack, a user can see a debuggable frame for each language and the user can inspect variables for each language.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a proxy is used between executing code being debugged and a debugger.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a script engine interface can be used by a debugger to communicate metadata to a proxy.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a debugger interacts with a runtime messaging environment.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein debugging is performed on a server side of a runtime messaging environment.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a runtime messaging environment interprets language interactions and performs debugging.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the script engine has a static constructor load the script debug controller.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the script debug controller receives information from the script engine, comprising:
a) language extensions for each language;
b) classes that implement the script engine;
c) information on optional capabilities for each language; and
d) language name.