view contrib/debugshell.py @ 27375:c4a062d090ee

help: teach loaddoc to load from a different directory

The help system currently only supports showing help topics from a
single directory. We'll need to teach it to show results from
different directories in order to show the internals topics.

The first step is to teach loaddoc() to load documentation from
a sub-directory.

# debugshell extension
"""a python shell with repo, changelog & manifest objects"""

import sys
import mercurial
import code
from mercurial import cmdutil

cmdtable = {}
command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)

def pdb(ui, repo, msg, **opts):
    objects = {
        'mercurial': mercurial,
        'repo': repo,
        'cl': repo.changelog,
        'mf': repo.manifest,
    }

    code.interact(msg, local=objects)

def ipdb(ui, repo, msg, **opts):
    import IPython

    cl = repo.changelog
    mf = repo.manifest
    cl, mf # use variables to appease pyflakes

    IPython.embed()

@command('debugshell|dbsh', [])
def debugshell(ui, repo, **opts):
    bannermsg = "loaded repo : %s\n" \
                "using source: %s" % (repo.root,
                                      mercurial.__path__[0])

    pdbmap = {
        'pdb'  : 'code',
        'ipdb' : 'IPython'
    }

    debugger = ui.config("ui", "debugger")
    if not debugger:
        debugger = 'pdb'

    # if IPython doesn't exist, fallback to code.interact
    try:
        __import__(pdbmap[debugger])
    except ImportError:
        ui.warn("%s debugger specified but %s module was not found\n"
                % (debugger, pdbmap[debugger]))
        debugger = 'pdb'

    getattr(sys.modules[__name__], debugger)(ui, repo, bannermsg, **opts)