Astarno
How to use the dbg tracer in Elixir
I’m trying to use the dbg tracer from Erlang in Elixir. At the moment I have the following line:
:dbg.tracer(process, fn (msg, _) -> IO.puts("DEBUG: #{msg}") end)
This raises the error:
** (CompileError) iex:1: undefined function process/0
(stdlib 3.16.1) lists.erl:1358: :lists.mapfoldl/3
Any help with this would be appreciated. I’m myself pretty new to Elixir and Erlang, so it’s very possible it’s something very simple that I’m doing wrong.
Kind regards!
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John-Goff
From looking at the docs it appears as though that function does not take a two-arity function as its second argument. It should either be a zero-arity function, or a tuple with a two-arity function and the initial data for that function. This is the Erlang type syntax which specifies this:
Data = PortGenerator | HandlerSpec | ModuleSpec
PortGenerator = fun() (no arguments)
Error = term()
HandlerSpec = {HandlerFun, InitialData}
HandlerFun = fun() (two arguments)
ModuleSpec = fun() (no arguments) |{TracerModule, TracerState}
TracerModule = atom()
InitialData = TracerState = term()
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RudManusachi
The first argument of :dbg.tracer/2 is type which is one of the atoms :port | :process | :module.
You probably got that example mixed from some source in Erlang. process in Erlang is an atom. So the equivalent in elixir would be :process
:dbg.tracer(:process, fn (msg, _) -> IO.puts("DEBUG: #{msg}") end)
LostKobrakai
I usually suggest GitHub - redink/extrace: Elixir wrapper for Recon Trace., which translates quite well from and to erlang.
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