What is JSniper?
It’s a tool used for development, debugging, and troubleshooting of Verne applications.
JSniper Menu: Right click on the view node (record, box, repeater, attribute etc) to show the popup menu.
The following features are accessible on the popup menu and main screen as shown in the image above:
- Show view node summary info
- Open Widget on UX hub.
- Open service transaction inspector.
- Open in Magellan,
- Open widget in Magellan
Toggle Form Layout
The following image shows the form layout of the main screen after the Toggle Layout is clicked. It shows the structure of the form and view nodes that we can inspect. Note that each view node type is colour coded and indicated with the node code for easier selection. The node code is not displayed for node types of Attributes and Buttons. All nodes are also populated with Tooltips displaying the node type, code and Id.
View node types:
- Record
- Box
- Repeater
- Attribute
Enable JSniper
To activate JSniper functionality you need to:
- Connect Magellan to the running Verne application
- Refresh the Verne application UI to activate JSniper functionality. Connect to the master application and it will be available to other applications in the cluster/project.
UI Impact
The JSniper tool enhances the UI with additional tools and thus it can impact the look and feel of the UI.
UI Development: It’s recommended that JSniper functionality should NOT be activated when doing any UI development/testing.
