I am new to Openstack and I wanna get a closer look into the Swift component. Now I hava got Eclipse and the Pydev attached to it, plus I am using Ubuntu12.04. Moreover I have download the latest source code of swift-master 1.8.1 from github.
How on earth could I debug Swift in Eclipse? For example, add a breakpoint and debug the process step by step?
Swift is a distributed system, so running it locally in an IDE's debugger doesn't make a lot of sense. Perhaps a better idea would be to set up a Swift All In One (SAIO) as described in http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_saio.html and examining logs or adding logging to where you are looking for more info.
You can find a lot of info on how Swift works at http://swift.openstack.org and at http://swiftstack.com/openstack-swift/
Thx so much for your advice.Before this,I've managed to setup a SAIO on my own PC,as well as a cluster consists of 25 nodes(all physical machines).So in some way I've known how Swift works from the whole picture.I just feel it's not enough cause I am trying to do some customized development.
Before Swift,I learned the source code of Cassandra by running it in Eclipse using the debug-like way.Is there any chance that I could start up the service of SAIO(proxy,account,container,object server etc.)in IDE and then get access to them via a client wrote by myself?
Asked: 2013-05-14 07:24:18 -0600
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Last updated: Jul 01 '15
