Re: Zillions of components - what is calling what?

Simon Wonderful <onederful2be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let's say you've been plonked into an environment where people have
> been programming with Mason for years. There are billions and billions
> of Mason components being called all over the place.
> 
> You've been asked to add some 'simple' functionality to an existing
> web site - it's not much different to what's already there, but you
> have absolutely no idea which component is calling which component
> in the mess of components and subdirectories and include files.
> 
> And there is (ka-ching) only very little external Word documentation on
> the system.
> What do you do? Can I somehow get Mason to show me a debug trail
> of Mason components being called, when I invoke a web page?

Search through the archives for discussions on profiling.  You might
find some ideas in there.  I seem to recall one post which suggested
getting the compiler gto insert code to create a small object at the
beginning of the component, which has a DESTROY method which reports the
time that it took to execute that component.  This idea could probably
be used to print traces as you go in and out of components.

-Dom

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