[TYPO3-50-general] better "lazy debugging" in FLOW3?

[Thomas Allmer]

hey

I'm just curious or I'm the only one having problems with "lazy 
debugging" (lazy in form of I don't want to use much effort [like a full 
debugger])

basically I want to use FirePHP to just output an object for Example

BlogController.php -> IndexAction

$blogs = $this->blogRepository->findAll();
\F3\debug( $blogs );

if I do this, it will just fail as it will try to output something like 
this (I just cut it):

Array ( [0] => F3\Blog\Domain\Model\Blog_AOPProxy_Development Object ( 
[targetMethodsAndGroupedAdvices:protected] => Array ( 
[FLOW3_Persistence_isNew] => Array ( [F3\FLOW3\AOP\AroundAdvice] => 
Array ( [0] => F3\FLOW3\AOP\AroundAdvice Object ( 
[aspectObjectName:protected] => 
F3\FLOW3\Persistence\Aspect\DirtyMonitoring [adviceMethodName:protected] 
=> isNew [objectManager:protected] => F3\FLOW3\Object\Manager Object ( 
[context:protected] => Development [reflectionService:protected] => 
F3\FLOW3\Reflection\Service Object ( [initialized:protected] => 1 
[cache:protected] => F3\FLOW3\C...


The problem is that the blog object has far more variables than my 
domain model as they are needed for persistence and AOP and so on (I guess)

However what I'm interested in is my Domain Model so it's basically 
"just" this

Array
(
     [0] => F3\Blog\Domain\Model\Blog_AOPProxy_Development Object
         (
             [name:protected] => FLOW3
             [description:protected] => A blog about FLOW3 development.
             [logo:protected] =>
             [isNew:protected] =>
             [isDirty:protected] =>
         )
)

so how can I get there? This is my solution! what do you think? it, 
makes testing variables just way easier...

1) we need a function that will clear my blog object from all the 
internal variables
http://pastie.org/483042

It basically just checks for the "original" Class function and unsets 
everything else. (it will also call the __debug() for containing subObjects)

now if I want I could do

\F3\debug( $blogs[0]->__debug() );
and it will show me just the stuff I need

Further improvements:
- create a dedicated debug function that will try to use the __debug 
function first before outputting something; as an example included into 
FirePHP http://pastie.org/483052
- don't manually create this function, I guess the AOP Proxy would be 
the perfect place to include this function into every class.

So I guess the function name __debug() is a little bad; maybe something 
like FLOW3_AOP_Proxy_clearInternalVariables()

What do you think of the general idea? or do you have any other solution 
on howto debug easy? [without using a full blown debugger... I'm just to 
lazy for this type of debugging... :p]

cheers
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