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I have a really simple question about Javascript in WA DE. Namely, how do I debug it? Is there a console function I can write to? Is there a real debugger available?

I'm trying to write something that would emulate the SCHID processing of WA SE. I have most of it working, but am having an issue with a stupid string comparison and I can't see the results.

Hi,

You can use the 'print' as shown below in the javascript. 

In windows , if you start server from console , you will see the messages printed there. For unix , you should see in stdout.txt file in the logs folder.

print([expr ...])

Evaluate and print expressions. Evaluates each expression, converts the result to a string, and prints it.

Please refer the doc -

Rhino shell | MDN 

Hope it helps!

Ravi Kiran

This is useful to know.  Better than not having an option at all.  I have often wished the desktop client had the ability to debug JS or had a JS sandbox that with access to the DE specific functions.

Thank you! Happy to know this information helped!

As I just had cause to try this, I thought I'd follow up.  If you want to get a cleaner output to your console, it helps to print  a new line between variables with the \n escape character. For example:

print(" \n \n");
print("APPL._SDAY="+APPL._SDAY);
print(" \n");
print("I_THI01001="+APPL.I_THI01001);

will output the following:

APPL._SDAY=Tuesday
I_TH101001=2

This was useful to troubleshoot but not without hassle.  In order to start the server from a console and not a windows service it meant shutting down a High Availability environment (2 servers), starting one up through the console, troubleshoot the javascript, shut it down, then start up both servers using services to bring the the environment back again.

Is there no easier way to see this output on Windows?