Form Builder/Form Runner development console

[ebruchez]

When developing forms, it'd be great to have more visibility, for example on errors. Some errors happen as a matter of course, but some not.

Until Orbeon Forms 4.9, we used to show an error dialog in dev mode. But this is not ideal. Instead:

• for errors, we should have a client-side console showing the errors
• the console could also be used to log other useful information during development / testing
• this should be independent of dev mode, maybe enabled directly from Form Builder

As a first approximation, a very simple console could be hooked up in the spot where we show the dynamic errors dialog.

See also #2161.

[bytesnz]

Could you just use the javascript console and pipe errors to that?

[avernet]

We were thinking of something slightly more high level, but I agree: doing something at the console level might be a first good step.

[ebruchez]

Either way a requirement is that the server should send to the client some of the information which otherwise goes to a log file on the server.

+1 for starting with something simple.

[ebruchez]

+1 from customer also to debug service calls/the send action. I added some doc about how to do it right now but it's not ideal.

[ebruchez]

What the console should cover:

• errors
• logging/debugging actions
• logging/debugging service calls
• more