Walks you through the process of creating a debug configuration for your new service, and running the client application to
access and debug the service.
Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.
Create a Debug Configuration
- In the COBOL Explorer, click the
ProgramSOAP project.
- From the main menu, click
Run > Debug Configurations.
- In the left pane, right-click
COBOL Enterprise Server; then select
New from the context menu.
- At the very top of the right pane, type
ProgramSOAP into the
Name field.
- On the
General tab click the
Browse button that corresponds to the
Connection and
Server fields.
- Select
ESSOAP; then click
OK.
Note: If the ESSOAP
enterprise server instance is the only instance defined in
Enterprise Server, these fields are completed for you.
- Under
Debugging type, click the
Web Service tab.
This shows that all debug Web services are invoked by a request from the client.
- Click
Apply; then click
Debug.
- Answer
Yes to any prompts to open views or perspectives.
- In the
Debug view, you should now see an entry for debugging
ProgramSOAP [COBOL Enterprise Server].
Set Breakpoints
You want to be able to see when the client program hands off control to the service running in
Enterprise Server. Because the program hands off control at two points in its execution – first to run the MakeAppt operation, and second to
run the CheckAppt operation – you set a breakpoint at each hand-off point in the code so you can step through the program.
The code that calls the service is contained in the
MakeCheckAppt-proxy.cbl file:
call "InvokeService02"
It appears twice in the program. You want to set a breakpoint just before each of these call statements.
- From the COBOL Explorer, expand
ProgramSOAP > COBOL Programs > client.
- Double-click
MakeCheckAppt-proxy.cbl. This places the source code into the COBOL editor.
- Press
Ctrl+F to search for the following code:
move 256 to wsc-srvc-faultcode-len
- Place your mouse pointer in the left-most column at that line of code and double-click to set a breakpoint.
Note: When the breakpoint has been set, a dot appears in the left-most column.
- Search for the next instance of:
move 256 to wsc-srvc-faultcode-len
and set another breakpoint.
Run the COBOL Client
- From the COBOL Explorer, expand
ProgramSOAP > COBOL Programs > client.
- Right-click
MakeCheckAppt-app.cbl; then select
Debug As > COBOL Application from the context menu.
Note: If a Confirm Perspective Switch message appears, click
Yes.
This places an entry into the
Debug view for the client application.
- In the
Debug view, right-click the bottom-most entry; then select
Resume.
- The client invokes a console named
runm, and waits for input. In the
runm console, complete the fields as follows to set an appointment slot:
Service Address
|
leave blank
|
Username
|
leave blank
|
Password
|
leave blank
|
Operation
|
1
|
lnk_customer_name
|
Benton Riley
|
lnk_consultant_id
|
8706
|
lnk_date.lnk_yyyy
|
2525
|
lnk_date.lnk_mm
|
1
|
lnk_date.lnk_dd
|
1
|
lnk_time_slot
|
5
|
The client application then resumes execution, and pauses on the
move 256 to wsc-srvc-faultcode-len statement.
- Switch back to the
Debug view.
- Press
F6 multiple times to step through the code until you have stepped just past the
call "InvokeService02" statement.
- On the
Debug view, expand entries under all
Application Thread entries. You should see that the deployed
schedule application is now being accessed from
Enterprise Server.
- Press
F8 to resume and terminate execution.
Rerun the COBOL Client
Here you rerun the client, selecting the other operation to see that the appointment has been made.
- In the
Debug view, right-click the
MakeCheckAppt-app.dll entry marked as <terminated>; then select
Relaunch from the context menu.
- In the
Debug view, right-click the bottom-most entry; then select
Resume.
- Complete the
runm fields as follows:
Service Address
|
leave blank
|
Username
|
leave blank
|
Password
|
leave blank
|
Operation
|
2
|
lnk_customer_name
|
Benton Riley
|
lnk_consultant_id
|
8706
|
lnk_date.lnk_yyyy
|
2525
|
lnk_date.lnk_mm
|
1
|
lnk_date.lnk_dd
|
1
|
The client application then resumes execution, and pauses on the
move 256 to wsc-srvc-faultcode-len statement.
- Press
F6 multiple times to step through the code until the appointment you set appears on the list in the
runm client. You should see it on line
[00005] because it is the fifth appointment set for that day.
- From the
Debug view, press
F8 to resume and terminate execution.