How to turn on debug trace in Flex

Posted by: vx on: February 10, 2009

In: flex
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When you encounter issue wit your flex app, one useful tool for troubleshooting is to turn on debug in flex to get some output that will provide some clue of the cause of he problem. Here is how to turn it on from server-side as well as from client-side:

1. From server side:
In the services-config.xml, set the logging level to debug, and set filters to include the service you need:

<target class=”flex.messaging.log.ConsoleTarget” level=”debug”>
<properties>
<prefix>[Flex hotfix2] </prefix>
<includeDate>true</includeDate>
<includeTime>true</includeTime>
<includeLevel>true</includeLevel>
<includeCategory>true</includeCategory>
</properties>
<filters>
<pattern>Endpoint.*</pattern>
<pattern>Service.*</pattern>
<pattern>Protocol.*</pattern>
<pattern>Message.*</pattern>
<pattern>DataService.*</pattern>
<pattern>Configuration</pattern>
</filters>
</target>

See available pattern in doc:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/8.2/programLC/programmer/lcds/help.html?content=services_logging_3.html

2. To turn on trace in JGroup:
in jgroups-tcp.xml, add <TRACE/> tag just before the </config> line :

<config>
….
<TRACE/>
</config>

3. To turn on from client-side:
Make sure flashlog.txt is enabled, i.e, have the following setting in mm.cfg
TraceOutputFileEnable=1
ErrorReportingEnable=1
See more details in the doc here
There is a good blog regarding mm.cfg here as well.
Then in your flex app, add the following tag:
<mx:TraceTarget/>

4. To turn on the flash player policy logging
see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security_05.html

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