Debugging Governance Registry

This section describes the possible ways to debug the functionality of Governance Registry. By debug we mean any possible way that can be used to identify the behavior or flow of an operation in Governance Registry. Given below are the debugging methods of Governance Registry.

Start the server with debug port Enabled

Just like any other Carbon server Governance Registry can also be started enabling a port to debug. This would allow any functionality of the server to be debug remotely against the source. User can start the server with debug mode enabled as given below.

./wso2server.sh -debug 5005

In the given above example the defined debugging port is 5005. The server would hold the start up till the port is being listened to debug remotely. Any advanced integrated development environment like IntelliJidea, Eclipse or Netbeans can be used to listen to this port and remotely debug against the source of the server. 

Handler Simulator 

Handler Simulator can be used to identify handlers which get invoked for a selected registry operation. And also it illustrates the order in which the handlers get invoked. This is a good debugging option for users since they can identify what are the extended implementations for a given registry operation. Please refer Simulating Handlers for further information. 

System Logs

Monitoring log files is another possible way to debug registry. You might find logs for Database Query Execution Statistics very useful. Please refer System Logs section to learn how to view the logs of a server.