want a way to get a trace of api calls

[Martin Pool]

api calls to Launchpad can be a bit slow. It would be nice if there was a way to see a trace of what's happening, so that we can either give the user some idea of progress, or so that the application author can get an idea of inefficient things they may be doing. Because it runs only over https you can't watch the requests at the network level.

Something like LAUNCHPADLIB_TRACE=1 would be nice, and would let it be turned on without app-specific patches.

Probably the output should go through python's logging module so it can be redirected.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:12:28 -0000, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> api calls to Launchpad can be a bit slow. It would be nice if there was
> a way to see a trace of what's happening, so that we can either give the
> user some idea of progress, or so that the application author can get an
> idea of inefficient things they may be doing. Because it runs only over
> https you can't watch the requests at the network level.
>
> Something like LAUNCHPADLIB_TRACE=1 would be nice, and would let it be
> turned on without app-specific patches.

Do you know about "import httplib2; httplib2.debuglevel = 1"?

It's not suitable for displaying to users, and it doesn't satisy your
last constraint, but I use it for looking at the requests when
developing.

It may be useful to you until this bug is fixed.

Thanks,

James

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

On 11 February 2010 14:09, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:12:28 -0000, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> api calls to Launchpad can be a bit slow.  It would be nice if there was
>> a way to see a trace of what's happening, so that we can either give the
>> user some idea of progress, or so that the application author can get an
>> idea of inefficient things they may be doing.  Because it runs only over
>> https you can't watch the requests at the network level.
>>
>> Something like LAUNCHPADLIB_TRACE=1 would be nice, and would let it be
>> turned on without app-specific patches.
>
> Do you know about "import httplib2; httplib2.debuglevel = 1"?
>
> It's not suitable for displaying to users, and it doesn't satisy your
> last constraint, but I use it for looking at the requests when
> developing.
>
> It may be useful to you until this bug is fixed.

I didn't; thanks.
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>