Bee Watch

Bee Watch is an interactive debugger for the Go programming language.

Features

• Use Critical, Info and Trace three levels to change debugger behavior.
• Display() variable values or Printf() with customized format.
• User-friendly Web UI for WebSocket mode or easy-control command-line mode.
• Call AddWatchVars() to monitor variables and show their information when the program calls Break().
• Configuration file with your customized settings(beewatch.json).

Installation

Bee Watch is a “go get” able Go project, you can execute the following command to auto-install:

go get github.com/beego/beewatch

Attention This project can only be installed by source code now.

Quick start

Usage

package main

import (
    "time"

    "github.com/beego/beewatch"
)

func main() {
    // Start with default level: Trace,
    // or use `beewatch.Start(beewatch.Info())` to set the level.
    beewatch.Start()

    // Some variables.
    appName := "Bee Watch"
    boolean := true
    number := 3862
    floatNum := 3.1415926
    test := "fail to watch"

    // Add variables to be watched, must be even sized.
    // Note that you have to pass the pointer.
    // For now it only supports basic types.
    // In this case, 'test' will not be watched.
    beewatch.AddWatchVars("test", test, "App Name", &appName,
        "bool", &boolean, "number", &number, "float", &floatNum)

    // Display something.
    beewatch.Info().Display("App Name", appName).Break().
        Printf("boolean value is %v; number is %d", boolean, number)

    beewatch.Critical().Break().Display("float", floatNum)

    // Change some values, must be even sized.
    appName = "Bee Watch2"
    number = 250
    // Here you will see something interesting.
    beewatch.Trace().Break()

    // Multiple goroutines test.
    for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
        go multipletest(i)
    }

    beewatch.Trace().Printf("Wait 3 seconds...")
    select {
    case <-time.After(3 * time.Second):
        beewatch.Trace().Printf("Done debug")
    }

    // Close debugger,
    // it's not useful when you debug a web server that may not have an end.
    beewatch.Close()
}

func multipletest(num int) {
    beewatch.Critical().Break().Display("num", num)
}

Connect

Bee Watch debugger is automatically started on http://localhost:23456 when you use WebSocket mode, you can change port and other configuration by editing beewatch.json(copy default setting from Bee Watch source folder).

You browser has to support WebSocket, it has been tested with Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Mac and Windows.

Examples and API documentation

Go Walker