Hey all - I’m trying to troubleshoot some exceptions that are happening in a collector during publish from Flame. For some reason the shot entity is not picking up either a name or a code attribute. I’m trying to do any sort of logging from a custom collector hook. The documentation indicates that …

Do you use self.logger, or self.parent.logger? Not sure but one of these two should give you the log in the publish dialog. Otherwise, you could just watch the log file that the output goes to, whichever it is. Another option you have is remote debugging the hook e.g. with rempte_pdb - you set up …

@mmoshev that remote_pdb suggestion is genius. Thanks so much, I’ll give that a try!

I should also say that both self.logger and self.parent.logger are overridden by the publish engine - all the logging output is sucked into the GUI. Any output from collector hooks feels like it just gets lost. I ended up putting this in the constructor for the hook: self.debug_log = False…

Logging from a Publish plugin?

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carlos-villavicencio April 14, 2023, 5:26pm 5

Hello! You can also take a look at this threat with good suggestions for remote debugging: Remote Debugging

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Logging from a Publish plugin?

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