Apigee Emulator: Apigee Debug / Trace functionality: Local Development in VS Code

[optimism]

Hi, dearest Apigee community,

Apigee Emulator: Apigee Debug / Trace functionality: Local Development in VS Code.

I'm able to use Apigee Emulator https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/local-development/overview 

However, I could not find Apigee's "Debug / Trace" functionality inside Apigee Emulator & VS Code's plugin for Apigee Local Development.

Could someone share any ideas on how to solve this case or maybe there are known workarounds, please?

thanks, best regards, 

Yermek

[rlimosenero]

I also want to do this. why there are no response here? Is this not a feature of local development?

[nmarkevich]

The debug session will be pretty helpful, I am pretty sure it must be available in emulator. Google Team, could you please provide any information?

[andreavocado]

Are there any news on that?

I can see the debug-trace as "supported features" within the running apigee emulator, but i couldn't find any references. Do the references anywhere exists?

[lokesh-rajwani]

Surprisingly, debug feature is not yet supported for the local development 🤔

The feature is requested here.
Currently I tried beta mode of this feature, by adding following configuration option to user settings
cloudcode.beta.enableApigeeTrace: true

It does the basic job... such as Request Trace, checking Variables Set/Read, etc, but print statements still are not supported (as of Oct 2023).
I personally found this beta feature buggy and not stable (stops responding after some successful attempts, and entire VSCode and emulator's docker container restart is required to get it working again)

[pdouglas540]

@lokesh-rajwani Any updates on the feature for tracing? Where exactly in the settings json do you add this feature? I'd like to at least try the beta ApigeeTrace. Thank you!

[pdouglas540]

Ignore my request, I was able to review the documentation using the feature link above and find everything I needed. I've enabled it for my local apigee sessions. Thanks again!

[pdouglas540]

With a bit of patience I was able to get the VS Code Apigee emulator working soups to nuts. @lokesh-rajwani Tracing is a bit limited but nevertheless better than nothing! It is early in our project and we currently only have a sandbox on-prem Apigee instance that is acting up right now. In down time I imported everything and was able to connect and make everything work via my container. I'm using emulator image 1.11.0 and have not crashed it or had any issues. Yay!