New in Symfony 2.4: Quicker Access to the Profiler when working on an API

November 4, 2013 • Published by Fabien Potencier

Warning: This post is about an unsupported Symfony version. Some of this information may be out of date. Read the most recent Symfony Docs.

Contributed by Adrien Brault in #9342

In the development environment, the profiler, the web profiler, and the web debug toolbar are enabled by default. But when working on an API, you spend more time in the console introspecting the HTTP responses as plain text than in a browser. In that case, getting the profile URL associated with the current request/response message is a bit cumbersome; the X-Debug-Token header gives you the profiler unique identifier, but it's then up to you to open a browser and remember the hostname and the path to the Symfony profiler.

As of Symfony 2.4, the profile full URL is available in the X-Debug-Token-Link header. No big deal, but it makes things as easy as they should be.

Published in #Living on the edge

Help the Symfony project!

As with any Open-Source project, contributing code or documentation is the most common way to help, but we also have a wide range of sponsoring opportunities.

Comments

Clement Herreman said on Nov 4, 2013 at 17:48

Not that much, but that's what I like in Symfony2: ease of debugging, via some simple tools. Congrats to Adrien!

Loïc Doubinine said on Nov 4, 2013 at 17:51

Great news.

It will be easier to solve issues about Profile Url on Symfony2 shortcut chrome extension

Congrats too

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/symfony2-profiler-shortcu/denlhphadllhcolhlbbbjmhkgbknmmon

Luciano Mammino said on Nov 4, 2013 at 19:43

Simple but really useful addition!

Patrik Karisch said on Nov 4, 2013 at 20:00

hmm, use of the X- prefix is deprecated ... ;)

Mickaël Andrieu said on Nov 5, 2013 at 02:22

A very good idea! Thanks Adrien :)

Comments are closed.

To ensure that comments stay relevant, they are closed for old posts.