[Question] How to run in debug mode in IDEA or VSCode with latest 1.2.6, and no sequence diagram in IDEA?

[scheung38]

Cannot seem to run in debug in either IDE above using plugin 1.2.6.

Also, if project is created from within IDEA, there is no sequence diagram?

IDEA: Community Edition: 2020.1.3

Code: 1.47.0

Mac OSX: Catalina 10.15.5

[praveennadarajah]

@scheung38

We tested a simple "Hello, World!" scenario in debug mode with IDEA and VSCode. We were able to successfully debug and view sequence diagram when a project is created with IDEA.

Please follow the steps in [1] to debug in IDEA and [2] to view the sequence diagram.

We were not able to debug in VSCode successfully. This has been already fixed with ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang#24735 and ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang#24745 and the fix with be available with the Swan Lake preview 3 and 1.2.7 releases. You can follow the steps in [3] to debug in VSCode.

Tested sample scenario:

import ballerina/io;

public function main() {
    io:println("Hello, World!");
}

Tested Ballerina version:

jBallerina 1.2.6
Language specification 2020R1
Update Tool 0.8.8

Other versions:

IDEA: Community Edition: 2019.3.4
VSCode: 1.47.2
Mac OSX: High Sierra 10.13.6

[1] https://ballerina.io/learn/setting-up-intellij-idea/using-intellij-plugin-features/#debugging-ballerina-programs
[2] https://ballerina.io/learn/setting-up-intellij-idea/using-intellij-plugin-features/#viewing-the-sequence-diagram
[3] https://ballerina.io/learn/setting-up-visual-studio-code/run-and-debug/

[praveennadarajah]

We tested the above scenario in IDEA: Community Edition: 2020.1.4 as well. Everything works as expected.