PS-Chrome-Logger

A utility to allow PeopleSoft developers to write log statements to the Chrome browser console from PeopleCode.

Dependencies

• You must be on PeopleTools 8.55 or later.

• [Optional] Install the PS-Jsonify utility to enable logging of PeopleCode object types such as Arrays, App Classes, Records, and Rowsets with one line of code.

Installing

• Download and import the PeopleSoft project into App Designer.

• Install the Chrome Logger extension for Google Chrome.

• Click the extension icon to enable logging for the current tab's domain (It will light up blue).

Usage

You can to write log statements from PeopleCode like this:

(CreateObject("L:O")).G("Hello from the server");

The log output will show in the Chrome browser console like this:

If you have the PS-Jsonify utility installed then you can output PeopleCode object types. Here is an example statement logging the Landing Page Rowset from the PT_LANDINGPAGE Component PeopleCode:

Local  Rowset  &rsLandingPages = GetLevel0()(1).GetRowset(Scroll.PTNUI_LP_PAGE);

(CreateObject("L:O")).G(&rsLandingPages);

The log output will show in the Chrome browser console like this:

If you do not use the PS-Jsonify utility then above example would output "Rowset".

Limitations

• This utility only supports the output of log statements to the Chrome browser console in PeopleCode contexts where the %Response object is available. You can extend the logging facade class to use different logging strategies in contexts where the %Response object is unavailable. An example might include writing to a file when in an Integration Broker or Process Scheduler context.

• This utility communicates log data via HTTP response headers. The Chrome browser has a limit of 250kb across all headers for a single request so this poses a limit on the amount of data you can log.

Additional Details

Blog Post: Server Side Logs in the Browser Console