Bug 534684 (RHQ-1457) - add global "debug" feature to the superuser account
Summary: add global "debug" feature to the superuser account
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: RHQ-1457
Product: RHQ Project
Classification: Other
Component: Core UI
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: RHQ Project Maintainer
QA Contact: Mike Foley
URL: http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RH...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-02 15:34 UTC by Joseph Marques
Modified: 2014-05-02 20:56 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2014-05-02 20:56:59 UTC
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Description Joseph Marques 2009-02-02 15:34:00 UTC
there have been a few times now when we've needed to add a "debug" param to the url and perform some special processing on the page (hiding or unhiding certain html controls) or even at the business layer (skipping validation, taking a different logical code path) in order to provide superior control in select times.  we even have the ability to hide or display more tabular data if certain debugging parameters are shown.

instead of each new page getting a one-off solution, the mechanism should be made consistent across the site.  charles' suggestion was that we enable this ONLY for the superuser, and i agree.  i suggested in return that it can be an option in the "edit details" section of the superuser's account (all other accounts would not be able to change this "debug mode" option, and it would be set to false).

Comment 1 Charles Crouch 2009-02-02 15:37:03 UTC
Typical debug options right now:
1) Enabling the Uninventory tab on the Services tab of the Browse Resources page
2) Disabling the validation on the Baseline dataset/frequency inputs so that we can use small datasets and low frequencies to help with generating OOBs for testing

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-11-10 20:33:25 UTC
This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-1457


Comment 3 Corey Welton 2010-08-06 13:02:14 UTC
Per triage, NEEDINFOing this -> joseph

Comment 4 Joseph Marques 2010-08-09 04:04:03 UTC
commit ca41659fa

if you are logged in as the superuser (usually rhqadmin), you can go to the administraiton>configuration>settings page and you'll see a new option "Enable Debug Mode:"

if that option is enabled, then the superuser will have a new item in the menu bar labeled "Debug".  this debug menu will have the various menu items which map to the specified pages used most often for development-level debugging:

SQL Interface (/admin/test/sql.jsp)
JPQL/HQL Interface (/admin/test/hibernate.jsp)
Hibernate Entity Browser (/admin/test/browser.jsp)
Administrative Control (/admin/test/control.jsp)
Test Email Configuration (/admin/test/email.jsp)
Test Agent Communications (/admin/test/agent.jsp)

However, since the menu bar is going away in the new GWT UI, these options need to be moved somewhere else.  so QA must remain in a blocked state until that happens.

Comment 5 Sudhir D 2010-10-19 06:32:11 UTC
Tried this on the new GWT UI (rhq-server-4.0.0-SNAPSHOT build# 423), where we don't have menu bar anymore, by browsing through Administrator->Configuration->System Settings (which is the only setting page I get). 

I get error on the page with below stack trace

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: ServletException in '/admin/config/GeneralPropertiesConfigForm.jsp': File "/admin/config/GeneralPropertiesConfigForm.jsp" not found at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:923) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:462) at org.apache.jsp.admin.config.EditServerConfig_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_005finsert_005f3(EditServerConfig_jsp.java:577) at org.apache.jsp.admin.config.EditServerConfig_jsp._jspx_meth_html_005fform_005f0(EditServerConfig_jsp.java:343) at org.apache.jsp.admin.config.EditServerConfig_jsp._jspx_meth_hq_005fauthorization_005f0(EditServerConfig_jsp.java:292) at org.apache.jsp.admin.config.EditServerConfig_jsp._jspService(EditServerConfig_jsp.java:114) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:373) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:336) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:654) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:557) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:481) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:968) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.include(PageContextImpl.java:609) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtilImpl.doInclude(TilesUtilImpl.java:99) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtil.doInclude(TilesUtil.java:135) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doInclude(InsertTag.java:760) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:892) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:462) at org.apache.jsp.portal.ColumnsLayout_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_005finsert_005f0(ColumnsLayout_jsp.java:189) at org.apache.jsp.portal.ColumnsLayout_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f1(ColumnsLayout_jsp.java:148) at org.apache.jsp.portal.ColumnsLayout_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f0(ColumnsLayout_jsp.java:102) at org.apache.jsp.portal.ColumnsLayout_jsp._jspService(ColumnsLayout_jsp.java:65) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:373) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:336) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:654) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:557) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:481) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:968) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.include(PageContextImpl.java:609) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtilImpl.doInclude(TilesUtilImpl.java:99) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesUtil.doInclude(TilesUtil.java:135) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doInclude(InsertTag.java:760) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag$InsertHandler.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:892) at org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles.InsertTag.doEndTag(InsertTag.java:462) at org.apache.jsp.portal.MainLayout_jsp._jspx_meth_tiles_005finsert_005f3(MainLayout_jsp.java:496) at org.apache.jsp.portal.MainLayout_jsp._jspx_meth_html_005fhtml_005f0(MainLayout_jsp.java:171) at org.apache.jsp.portal.MainLayout_jsp._jspService(MainLayout_jsp.java:82) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:373) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:336) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:654) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:445) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:379) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:292) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1085) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:263) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processTilesDefinition(TilesRequestProcessor.java:239) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.internalModuleRelativeForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:341) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForward(RequestProcessor.java:572) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:221) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.rhq.enterprise.gui.legacy.WebUserTrackingFilter.doFilter(WebUserTrackingFilter.java:50) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.rhq.enterprise.gui.legacy.AuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AuthenticationFilter.java:129) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.rhq.helpers.rtfilter.filter.RtFilter.doFilter(RtFilter.java:124) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:182) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:262) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:446) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 

Moving back to ON_DEV

Comment 7 Jay Shaughnessy 2014-05-02 20:56:59 UTC
We basically have this as #Test.


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