Grails

Add "debug mode" for templates; output template name in output as html comment

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 1.3.5
  • Component/s: None
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In large grails projects, it's hard to find the template that actually renders the html.

Add a debug mode to render taglib so that it would output template name as html comments:

<!-- begin XX render template "_sometemplate.gsp" -->
content from template
<!-- end XX render template "_sometemplate.gsp" -->

there could be a identifier to match which begin and end comments are pairs.

debug mode should be configurable in Config.groovy .

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Lari Hotari added a comment -

Implemented in this commit: http://github.com/grails/grails-core/commit/8c5a3064696bed760e6027ac605e7b74296b5c43

Usage is simple: append "?debugTemplates" or "&debugTemplates" to the url and view the source of the result in your browser. There will be debug information about gsp templates used to render the page as html comments.
example:
<!-- GSP #2 START template: /home/lari/sampleapp/grails-app/views/_carousel.gsp precompiled: false lastmodified: 22.6.2010 10:45 -->
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<!-- GSP #2 END template: /home/lari/sampleapp/grails-app/views/_carousel.gsp rendering time: 115 ms -->

Each block has a unique id (counter) inside the page so that you can find the start & end of each template call.

"debugTemplates" is restricted to development mode. It won't work in production.

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Lari Hotari added a comment - Implemented in this commit: http://github.com/grails/grails-core/commit/8c5a3064696bed760e6027ac605e7b74296b5c43 Usage is simple: append "?debugTemplates" or "&debugTemplates" to the url and view the source of the result in your browser. There will be debug information about gsp templates used to render the page as html comments. example: <!-- GSP #2 START template: /home/lari/sampleapp/grails-app/views/_carousel.gsp precompiled: false lastmodified: 22.6.2010 10:45 --> . . . <!-- GSP #2 END template: /home/lari/sampleapp/grails-app/views/_carousel.gsp rendering time: 115 ms --> Each block has a unique id (counter) inside the page so that you can find the start & end of each template call. "debugTemplates" is restricted to development mode. It won't work in production.
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Lari Hotari added a comment -

Documentation added: http://github.com/grails/grails-doc/commit/c14f28ef89ee7a78b6d4c07909a0ae7cd6624cba

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Lari Hotari added a comment - Documentation added: http://github.com/grails/grails-doc/commit/c14f28ef89ee7a78b6d4c07909a0ae7cd6624cba

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    Lari Hotari
    Reporter:
    Lari Hotari
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