How to debug real request from remote server.

[Zeka]

I have a module that listening for webhook notification on specific URL:

<?php namespace ProcessWire;

class ProcessPayments extends WireData implements Module, ConfigurableModule
{
	public function init()
	{
		$this->addHookBefore('ProcessPageView::execute', $this, 'runPayments');
	}

	public function ready() {

	}

	public function runPayments($event)
	{
		$it = isset($_GET['it']) ? $_GET['it'] : "";
		if (substr($it, 0, 1) === '/') $it = ltrim($it, "/");
		if (strpos($it, "webhooks/") !== false) {
          $this->checkRequest();
		} else {
			return;
		}

		switch ($it) {
			case 'webhooks/pay':
				$this->handlePayRequest();
				exit();
				break;
		}
	}

	private function checkRequest()
	{
		$this->checkRequestHMAC();
		return true;
	}

	...
}

Currently, for debugging real request from a remote server I use logs, but this is so inconvenient and slow after using dumps from TracyDebugger ( @adrian  is there something in TracyDebugger that can help? ). 

So looking for advice about how to debug such request, are there some tools for it? 

[Rudy]

@Zeka we use http://bugsnag.com to debug remote/production sites. Their free plan is good enough for most people actually.

[bernhard]

See tracy's Request Logger Panel

 

[adrian]

@Zeka - what @bernhard said ?

His Request Logger panel is awesome for this!

[Zeka]

@bernhard @adrian Wow, tracy's Request Logger Panel is what I was looking for and it works great with standard pages. 

But I have difficulties in getting it to work in my case.

As you could see I hooking into 'before' ProcessPageView::execute in 'init' stage and I don't have any page or template for this URL, so there is no page object available and I can't use  $this->wire('page')->logRequests();

That's all that I have from Tracy.

Am I missing something? 

 

[adrian]

Is there a reason you can't move the hook to ready where you will have the page object?

[Zeka]

Yes, I can't move it to ready as I need to change the output depending on an incoming request.

Basically, I have to return {'code': 0} if I have a valid incoming request and on ready stage, I already have rendered 404 page.

Maybe there is a better place for a hook? 

I have changed ProcessPageView::execute to ProcessPageView::ready and now everything works. Thank for the help, TracyDebugger and Logger panel! 

[bernhard]

@Zeka if you find time it would be great if you could write a little showcase/tutorial of this panel in the tracy thread ? Maybe Adrian could also use it for the docs...

Everything is there already: https://adrianbj.github.io/TracyDebugger/#/debug-bar?id=request-logger ? Thx for the great work @Adrian!