Debugging OpenSRP Server on Intellij

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Last updated: Jun 01, 2021 by Hilary Baraka Egesa
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This guide assumes you have Intellij IDEA Community and Maven installed.

Download Apache Tomcat 9 and unarchive the zip to a folder you have permissions to. Suggested location is /home/<username>/apache-tomcat-<version>

Open IntelliJ and go to File → Settings and expand Tools and select External Tools. Click + icon to add a new tool. Enter details as shown in the screenshot below:-

  • Name: Could be anything but suggested name is Tomcat

  • Program: Enter the full path to your catalina.sh

  • Arguments: jpda run

If you go to Tools → External Tools and click Tomcat (or the name of your tool), tomcat should start.

 

To set up Maven to build and deploy to your tomcat server, open Run → Edit Configurations, click the + icon and select Maven then configure as below:-

  • Name: Could be any name e.g Deploy or the name of the project

  • Working Directory: The location of your project.

  • Commandline:-

    war:war org.codehaus.mojo:wagon-maven-plugin:upload-single -Dwagon.fromFile=/<path-to-project-dir>/target/opensrp.war -Dwagon.url=file:///home/<username>/apache-tomcat-<version>/webapps/

 

To set up debugging, click Run → Edit Configurations, click the + icon and select Remote as shown below:-

  • Name: Could be any name e.g Debug or the name of the project

  • Debugger mode: Attach to remote JVM

  • Transport: Socket

  • Host: localhost

  • Port: 8000

To debug, click on Run → Debug

You are all set to debug on the OpenSRP server-side.