pyramid_debugtoolbar
pyramid_debugtoolbar
provides a debug toolbar useful while you're
developing your Pyramid application.
Note that pyramid_debugtoolbar
is a blatant rip-off of Michael van
Tellingen's flask-debugtoolbar
(which itself was derived from Rob Hudson's
django-debugtoolbar
). It also includes a lightly sanded down version of the
Werkzeug debugger code by Armin Ronacher and team.
Documentation
The documentation of the current stable release of pyramid_debugtoolbar
is
available at
https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-debugtoolbar/en/latest/.
Demonstration
For a demonstration:
-
Clone the pyramid_debugtoolbar
trunk.
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar.git
-
Create a virtual environment in the workspace.
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd pyramid_debugtoolbar
$ python3 -m venv env
-
Install the pyramid_debugtoolbar
trunk into the virtualenv.
.. code-block:: bash
$ env/bin/pip install -e .
-
Install the pyramid_debugtoolbar/demo
package into the virtualenv.
.. code-block:: bash
$ env/bin/pip install -e demo
-
Run the pyramid_debugtoolbar
package's demo/demo.py
file using the
virtual environment's Python.
.. code-block:: bash
$ env/bin/python demo/demo.py
Visit http://localhost:8080 in a web browser to see a page full of test
options.
Testing
If you have tox
installed, run all tests with:
.. code-block:: bash
$ tox
To run only a specific Python environment:
.. code-block:: bash
$ tox -e py311
If you don't have tox
installed, you can install the testing requirements,
then run the tests.
.. code-block:: bash
$ python3 -m venv env
$ env/bin/pip install -e ".[testing]"
$ env/bin/py.test
Building documentation
If you have tox
installed, build the docs with:
.. code-block:: bash
$ tox -e docs
If you don't have tox
installed, you can install the requirements to build
the docs, then build them.
.. code-block:: bash
$ env/bin/pip install -e ".[docs]"
$ cd docs
$ make clean html SPHINXBUILD=../env/bin/sphinx-build
4.12.1 (2024-02-04)
-
Fix a toolbar crash when loading the page and there aren't any visible
requests yet.
-
Fix a concern where the toolbar may access sensitive request attributes like
request.authenticated_userid
at times outside of the supported request
lifecycle.
4.12 (2024-02-03)
4.11 (2024-01-27)
4.10 (2022-01-02)
4.9 (2020-11-24)
-
Support Python 3.9.
-
Added a new Session Panel to track ingress and egress changes to a registered
ISession interface across a request lifecycle. By default, the panel only
operates on accessed sessions via a wrapped loader. Users can activate the
Session Panel, via the Toolbar Settings or a per-request cookie, to track the
ingress and egress data on all requests.
- Removed "Session" section from Request Vars Panel
- Updated Documentation and Screenshots
-
Ensured the Headers panel only operates when a Response object exists, to
create better stack traces if other panels encounter errors.
-
utils.dictrepr
will now fallback to a string comparison of the keys if a
TypeError is encountered, which can occur under Python3.
- A test was added to check to ensure sorting errors occur under Python3.
If the test fails in the future, this workaround may no longer be needed.
-
Updated toolbar javascript to better handle multiple user-activated panels.
split
and join
functions now use the same delimiter.- If the browser supports it, use a "set" to de-duplicate active panels.
-
Inline comments on toolbar.js and toolbar.py to alert future developers on
the string delimiters and cookie names.
4.8 (2020-10-23)
4.7 (2020-10-22)
4.6.1 (2020-02-10)
4.6 (2020-01-20)
4.5.2 (2020-01-06)
4.5.1 (2019-11-08)
4.5 (2018-09-09)
-
Drop Python 3.3 support to align with Pyramid and its EOL.
-
Add support for testing on Python 3.7.
-
Add a list of engines to the SQLAlchemy panel if queries come from
multiple engines.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/334
-
When the toolbar intercepts an exception via
debugtoolbar.intercept_exc = True
and returns the interactive
debugger, it will add request.exception
and request.exc_info
to
the request to indicate what exception triggered the response. This helps
upstream tweens such as pyramid_retry
to possibly retry the requests.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/343
-
Stop parsing the request.remote_addr
value when it contains chain of
comma-separated ip-addresses. Reject these values and emit a warning
to sanitize the value upstream.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/342
4.4 (2018-02-19)
4.3.1 (2018-01-28)
4.3 (2017-07-14)
-
The logging panel indicator is now color-coded to indicate the severity of
the log messages as well as the number of messages at said level. There may
be more messages, but the most severe show up in the annotation.
This feature also added a new nav_subtitle_style
hook to the
DebugPanel
API for adding a custom CSS class to the subtitle tag.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/322
4.2.1 (2017-06-30)
4.2 (2017-06-21)
This release contains a rewrite of the underlying exception / traceback
tracking machinery and fixes regressions caused by the 4.1 release that
broke the interactive debugger.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/318
-
Tracebacks are now tied to the per-request toolbar object one-to-one.
A request may have only one traceback. Previously they actually stuck
around for the entire lifetime of the app instead of being collected by
the max_request_history setting.
-
The routes for exceptions are standardized to look similar to the SQLA AJAX
routes. For example, /{request_id}/exception
instead of
/exception?token=...&tb=...
and
/{request_id}/exception/execute/{frame_id}?cmd=...
instead of
/exception?token=...&tb=...&frm=...&cmd=...
.
-
Fixed the url generation for the traceback panel link at the bottom of the
traceback... it was actually empty previously - it got lost somewhere along
the way.
-
/favicon.ico is no longer specially handled.. it's just part of
exclude_prefixes
like anything else that you want to exclude.
-
request.pdtb_history
is available for toolbar requests (mostly AJAX
requests or panel rendering).
-
Removed the unused history predicate.
-
URL generation was broken in the debugger.js
but that's fixed now so the
execute/source buttons work in tracebacks.
-
Drop the license from LICENSE.txt
for the removed ipaddr module in 4.1.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/315
4.1 (2017-05-30)
4.0.1 (2017-05-09)
4.0 (2017-05-03)
-
The config settings debugtoolbar.panels
, debugtoolbar.extra_panels
,
debugtoolbar.global_panels
and debugtoolbar.extra_global_panels
now all accept panel names as defined in
pyramid_debugtoolbar.panels.DebugPanel.name
. Thus you may use names
such as performance
, headers
, etc. These settings still support the
dotted Python path but it is suggested that panels now support being
included via debugtoolbar.includes
and config.add_debugtoolbar_panel
instead such that they are automatically added to the toolbar.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/288
-
Add a new config.add_debugtoolbar_panel
directive that can be invoked
from includeme
functions included via the debugtoolbar.includes
setting. These panels are automatically added to the default panel list
and should become the way to define toolbar panels in the future.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/283
-
Add a new config.inject_parent_action
directive that can be invoked
from includeme
functions included via the debugtoolbar.includes
setting. These actions are invoked on the parent config just before it is
created such that actions can inspect / wrap existing config.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/288
-
Added "sticky" panel functionality to allow a selected panel to persist
across pageviews using cookies. If a cookied panel does not have content
available for display, the first non-disabled panel will be displayed. If a
cookied panel is not enabled on the toolbar, the first non-disabled panel will
be displayed AND will become the new default panel.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/272
-
Added CustomLoggerFactory
to javascript, used in the development of PR 272.
This javascript factory allows panel developers and maintainers to use verbose
console logging during development, partitioned by feature, and silence it for
deployment while still leaving the logging lines activated.
-
The toolbar registers a BeforeRender
subscriber in your application to
monitor the rendering of templates. Previously it was possible that the
toolbar would miss rendering information because of the order in which the
subscribers were registered. The toolbar now waits until the application
is created and then appends a new subscriber that encapsulates the
your application's BeforeRender
subscribers.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/284
-
Remove duplicate id="${panel.dom_id}"
tags in history tab html. Only
the top-level <li>
tag has the id now.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/285
-
Emit a warning and disable the toolbar if the app is being served by
a forking / multiprocess wsgi server that sets
environ['wsgi.multiprocess']
to True
. This should help avoid
confusing issues in certain deployments like gunicorn and uwsgi multiprocess
modes. See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/286
-
The toolbar tween is always placed explicitly OVER the pyramid_tm tween.
-
Refactored all debugtoolbar panels to be included using
config.add_debugtoolbar_panel
and per-panel includeme
functions.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/288
-
Exposed a request.toolbar_panels
dictionary which can be used from within
DebugPanel.render_content
and DebugPanel.render_vars
in order to
introspect and use the data generated by other panels when rendering the
panel. See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/291
-
Support streaming new requests on Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 8+ by
using a Server-Sent-Events polyfill.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/293
3.0.5 (2016-11-1)
3.0.4 (2016-07-26)
- 3.0.3 was a brownbag release missing static assets.
3.0.3 (2016-07-26)
3.0.2 (2016-07-02)
3.0.1 (2016-05-20)
- Avoid touching
request.unauthenticated_userid
,
request.authenticated_userid
and request.effective_principals
unless
they are accessed by the user in the normal request lifecycle. This avoids
some issues where unauthenticated requests could trigger side effects on
your authentication policy or access the properties outside of the
expected lifecycle of the properties.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/263
3.0 (2016-04-23)
-
The toolbar is now a completely standalone application running inside the
tween. There are several minor incompatibilities and improvements related
to this extra isolation:
pyramid_mako
and the .dbtmako
renderer are no longer included
in the parent application (your app).- Panels must be extra careful now that they only render templates inside
of the
render_vars
and render_content
functions. These are the
only functions in which the request
object is for rendering the
toolbar panel. - The toolbar will not be affected by any global security policies your
application may put in place other than via
config.set_debugtoolbar_request_authorization
.
never run the toolbar in production
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/253
-
Updated Bootstrap to v3.3.6, refactored static assets and dropped require.js.
Each page now depends on what it needs without extra dependencies included
in the debugger pages.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/259
-
Enabled interactive tablesorting on table columns.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/pull/256
-
setuptools-git is now required to install the codebase in non-editable mode.
2.5 (2016-04-20)
2.4.2 (2015-10-28)
- Fix a long-standing bug in which log messages were not rendered until
the end of the response. By this time the arguments passed to the logger
may no longer be valid (such as SQLAlchemy managed objects) and you would
see a
DetachedInstanceError
.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/issues/188
2.4.1 (2015-08-12)
2.4 (2015-06-04)
This release changes some details of the panel API, so if you are writing
any custom panels for the toolbar please review the changes.
2.3 (2015-01-05)
2.2.2 (2014-11-09)
- Brownbagged 2.2.1, forgot to include the templates!
2.2.1 (2014-11-09)
2.2 (2014-08-12)
2.1 (2014-05-22)
-
Add new "debugtoolbar." configuration settings that allow enabling or
disabling various Pyramid knobs in a users .ini file. This for instance
allows easy enabling/disabling of template reloading for the debugtoolbar.
-
Allow the toolbar to display always, even when the parent application
is using a default permission.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/issues/147
-
Stabilize and document the pyramid_debugtoolbar.panels.DebugPanel
API to allow developers to create their own panels.
-
Add new debugtoolbar.extra_panels
and
debugtoolbar.extra_global_panels
configuration settings to make it
simpler to support custom panels without overwriting the default panels.
2.0.2 (2014-02-13)
- Fix breaking bugs when run under Py3k.
2.0.1 (2014-02-12)
- Fixes a bug in 2.0 expecting pyramid_beaker to be around.
2.0 (2014-02-12)
-
The toolbar has undergone a major refactoring to mitigate the effects of
the toolbar's internal behavior on the application to which it is connected
and make it possible to inspect arbitrary requests. It is now available at
/_debug_toolbar
and can be used to monitor any and all requests serviced
by the Pyramid application that it is wrapping, including non-html responses.
The toolbar will live-update (on conforming browsers via Server Sent Events)
when requests come into the Pyramid application, and can be used to debug and
inspect multiple requests simultaneously.
1.0.9 (2013-10-20)
- Use new
pyramid_mako
configuration directive add_mako_renderer.
1.0.8 (2013-09-09)
- Depend on
pyramid_mako
(Mako support will be split out of Pyramid in
1.5+).
1.0.7 (2013-08-29)
1.0.6 (2013-04-17)
- Packaging release only, no code changes. 1.0.5 was a brownbag release due to
missing directories in the tarball.
1.0.5 (2013-04-17)
-
Parse IPs correctly when request.remote_addr is a comma separated list
of proxies IPs.
-
If you are also using require.js, the debug toolbar's version of jQuery
will no longer conflict with your application's version of the library.
-
Use the "n" filter to disable default_filters when including the raw
SQL in links, leaving only the "u" filter (URL escaping).
-
Support for per-request authorization of toolbar middleware via
config.set_debugtoolbar_request_authorization(callback)
where callback
accepts request object and returns boolean value whether toolbar is enabled
or not.
-
Short term fix for preventing error when converting binary query params to json.
-
Fix sqlalchemy query duration from microseconds to milliseconds.
1.0.4 (2013-01-05)
-
Add a debugtoolbar.excluded_prefixes
setting. When a URL path prefix
matches one of these prefixes, the toolbar will not be shown on the resulting
page.
-
Show the prompt and little text file icons show all the time, instead of
only on hover.
-
Do not set max-height on result boxes (which result in nested scroll on
the page, which makes it hard to find information quickly).
-
When an expression result is long, do not truncate with an ellipsis, which
requires one more click to get at the information I need.
-
Support pip install
from the github repository by adding all static files
required to install in the package_data
setup.py
. Setuptools usually
uses Subversion or CVS to tell it what static files it needs to package up
for egg distribution, but does not support reading git metadata.
-
The debug toolbar now use a patched version of require.js with a distinct
private name that cannot clash with the dojo loader or other incompatible
versions of require that may already be loaded on the page. You no longer
need to add the toolbar to your own require.js to make it work.
1.0.3 (2012-09-23)
-
The valid_host
custom predicate used internally by pyramid_debugtoolbar
views didn't use newer "ipaddr"-based logic. Symptom: some views may have
been incorrectly inaccessible if you used a network mask as a
"debugtoolbar.hosts" option.
-
The debug console now works with Google App Engine.
-
The debug console now adds a shortcut for accessing the last result through
_
.
1.0.2 (2012-04-19)
-
Moved the toolbar and debugger javascript files to use requirejs for
better dependency loading and module isolation to play better with mutiple
library versions. Recurrent problem was with async loading and application
specific jquery library where the expected version was overrided by the
toolbar one.
If you are already using requirejs and want the toolbar to load, just add it
to your path and module::
require.config({
paths: {
"jquery": "jquery-1.7.2.min",
"toolbar": "/_debug_toolbar/static/js/toolbar"
}
});
require(["jquery", "toolbar"], function($, toolbar) {
$(function() {
// your module
});
});
1.0.1 (2012-03-27)
- If
request.remote_addr
is None
, disable the toolbar.
1.0 (2012-03-17)
0.9.9.1 (2012-02-22)
- When used with Pyramid 1.3a9+, views, routes, and other registrations made
by
pyramid_debugtoolbar
itself will not show up in the introspectables
panel.
0.9.9 (2012-02-19)
- Try to take advantage of MakoRendererFactoryHelper in Pyramid 1.3a8+. If
we can do this, the toolbar templates won't be effected by normal mako
settings. The most visible change is that toolbar mako templates now have
a
dbtmako
extension.
0.9.8 (2012-01-09)
-
Show request headers instead of mistakenly showing environ values in
Headers panel under "Request Headers". This also fixes a potential
UnicodeDecodeError.
-
Set content_length on response object when we regenerate app_iter while
replacing original content.
0.9.7 (2011-12-09)
-
The performance panel of the debugtoolbar used a variable named
function_calls
which was not initialised when stats are not
collected. This caused a NameError
when mako rendered the template with
the strict_undefined
option.
-
Fix Python 3 compatibility in SQLAlchemy panel.
-
Make SQLAlchemy explain and select work again.
0.9.6 (2011-12-09)
0.9.5 (2011-11-12)
-
Adjust tox setup to test older Pyramid and WebOb branches under 2.5.
-
Convert all templates to Mako.
-
Don't rely on pyramid.compat.json
.
-
Add Tweens toolbar panel.
0.9.4 (2011-09-28)
-
Upgrade to jquery 1.6.4 and tablesorter plugin 2.0.5b
-
Introduced new setting debugtoolbar.button_style
. Which can be used
to override the default style (top:30px) set by toolbar.css
.
-
Compatible with Python 3.2 (requires Pyramid 1.3dev+).
-
Appease settings values that were sensitive to __getattr__
in the
settings debug panel (e.g. MongoDB databases). See
https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/issues/30
0.9.3 (2011-09-12)
-
All debug toolbar panels and underlying views are now always executable by
entirely anonymous users, regardless of the default permission that may be
in effect (use the NO_PERMISSION_REQUIRED
permission for all
debugtoolbar views).
-
Toolbar cookie settings name changed (from fldt to p_dt), to avoid messing
up folks who use both the flask debugtoolbar and Pyramid's.
-
Fix IE7 and IE8 renderings of the toolbar.
0.9.2 (2011-09-05)
0.9.1 (2011-08-30)
-
The debugtoolbar.intercept_exc
setting is now a tri-state setting. It
can be one of debug
, display
or false
. debug
means show
the pretty traceback page with debugging controls. display
means show
the pretty traceback package but omit the debugging controls. false
means don't show the pretty traceback page. For backwards compatibility
purposes, true
means debug
.
-
A URL is now logged to the console for each exception when
debugtoolbar.intercept_exc
is debug
or display
. This URL leads
to a rendering of the "pretty" traceback page for an exception. This is
useful when the exception was caused by an AJAX or non-human-driven
request. This URL is also injected into the pretty traceback page (at the
bottom).
-
"Unfixed" indentation of SQL EXPLAIN done in 0.9, it broke the explain page
when a column value isn't a string.
0.9 (2011-08-29)
-
Fixed indentation of SQL EXPLAIN by replacing spaces with HTML spaces.
-
response.charset
in some undefined user-reported cases may be None
,
which would lead to an exception when attempting to render the debug
toolbar. In such cases we now assume the charset is UTF-8.
-
Some renderings of the request vars and renderer values would raise an
uncaught exception.
0.8 (2011-08-24)
- Try to cope with braindead Debian Python installs which package the
pstats
module separately from Python for god only knows what reason.
Turn the performance panel off in this case instead of crashing.
0.7 (2011-08-24)
0.6 (2011-08-21)
- Do not register an alias when registering an implicit tween factory (compat
with future 1.2 release).
0.5 (2011-08-18)
0.4 (2011-08-18)
- Change the default value for
debugtoolbar.intercept_redirects
to
false.
Rationale: it confuses people when first developing if the
application they're working on has a home page which does a redirection.
0.3 (2011-08-15)
-
Request vars panel would cause a UnicodeDecodeError under some
circumstances (see https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_debugtoolbar/issues/9).
-
Dynamicize URLs for SQLAlchemy subpanels.
-
Require "pyramid>=1.2dev" for install; the trunk is now "1.2dev" instead of
"1.1.1dev".
-
Requires trunk after 2011-08-14: WSGIHTTPException "prepare" method and
alias
param to add_tween, BeforeRender event has no "_system" attr.
-
Fix memory leak.
-
HTML HTTP exceptions now are rendered with the debug toolbar div.
-
Added NotFound page to demo app and selenium tests.
0.2 (2011-08-07)
-
Add SQLAlchemy "explain" and "select" pages (available from the SQLALchemy
panel next to each query shown in the page).
-
Requires newer Pyramid trunk (checked out on 2011-08-07 or later).
-
Add a link to the SQLAlchemy demo page from the demo app index page.
0.1 (2011-07-30)