Kinetic Trace Helper Utility 1.0 (Kinetic Web) Chrome Extension

[josecgomez]

@Mark_Wonsil

we’ll have Nun of that young man.

come on Mark live a little I know its a security nightmare but technically all the HAR type utilities are and it is soooooooooooooo sexy to just copy paste that sh* into postman

Let your hair down and join me in the dark side at least for a little while. I’ll consider adding client side encryption to the dump file so that you can’t accidentally save a dump and all your credentials too

[Mark_Wonsil]

I like the feature, I was talking about the GIF…

[josecgomez]

@Mark_Wonsil

I was talking about the GIF…

so was I

[spaceage (Chris)]

Unbelievable you two were able to uplift it that quickly. LOVE the Postman functionality - that’s going to make life so much easier! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[josecgomez]

We’ve officially released Version 1.0 of the tool see OP for updates and a new walk through

Kinetic Trace Helper Utility 1.0 (Kinetic Web) Chrome Extension

After seeing various discussions around tracing for Kinetic And seeing how popular the Trace Utility Parser was @jgiese.wci and I decided to start experimenting with a Chrome extension that would bring back / help with some of that functionality in the Kinetic Universe. V1 Launch 10/31/2023 [image] Here’s a Walk Through of the Functionality in Relase V 1.0 [Kinetic UX Trace Utility] We have submitted to Chrome for Web Store approval but that may take a few weeks. In the mea…

We have summited to Chrome Web Store and it is undergoing review. Let us know what you think and and any new features you’d like to see.

[spaceage (Chris)]

Small suggestion - add search functionality for text/regular expressions within the Request and Response frames. I can certainly copy/paste the content into another application that supports searching, but it would be mighty convenient to have it right in the extension.

Thanks again for this awesome extension!

[josecgomez]

@spaceage

add search functionality for text/regular expressions within the Request and Response frames.

That shouldnt be too hard we are using Ace Editor and it has that capability

[jgiese.wci (Joshua Giese)]

@spaceage I haz some ideas on this but it will take time. Real jobs and all that nonsense.

[spaceage (Chris)]

Appreciate you!

[josecgomez]

The extension is now officially available in the Chrome Web Store

Kinetic UX Trace Utility

[hkeric.wci (Haso Keric)]

Impressive Work! I truly appreciate the fact that this extension seamlessly integrates without cluttering the DOM. It’s a valuable lesson for Epicor to consider separating certain Debug Utilities into Chrome Extensions, just like what you’ve achieved here. Kudos to your team for this brilliant approach!

How To: Debugging Kinetic (Browser)

For sure it doesnt give enough info, you can’t drill down into an object. I am not sure why they are reinventing the wheel when all browsers come with a nice Dev Tools. Perhaps without cluttering the ERP, a DevTools plugin can be made which shows overlays among other things, for debugging like a pro! [image] [image] React Dev Tools [image] I would love to see also a placeyourstyleshere.css where anyone can theme a bit their css or customjavascript.js that epicor pre-loads. A…

[Mark_Wonsil]

@josecgomez

I’ll consider adding client side encryption to the dump file so that you can’t accidentally save a dump and all your credentials too

Recently, Cloud Flare created a HAR sanitizer based on the last Okta breach.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-har-sanitizer-secure-har-sharing

[jgiese.wci (Joshua Giese)]

@josecgomez

The extension is now officially available in the Chrome Web Store

Already found bugs that we don’t know how to fix yet:

• Don’t click the icon in the extensions area in the top right it opens a partial panel, we never handled that menu
• For this to work the dev tools have to be pinned to the active tab not floating. Not sure how to fix or if we can because of active tab detection we need to use
• Need to opening pinned it seems pinning after the fact seemed hit or miss on working.

[jgee (Jonathan)]

Hi,

Do I need to enable anything in Epicor? I am not getting the window popup telling me tracing is now enabled.

[josecgomez]

No just go to the developer tab (make sure its attached at the botom or the right / left it can’t be a popup) and click enable

[JasonMcD (Jason McDermott)]

Does this do any of the DIFF stuff that the classic one does?

Or if not, can I import this trace into the classic one? (So far I have failed…)

To clarify, the classic one showed me what fields I (might) need to set in my dataset, like this. (I have used this a lot the last few days.)

As for BO method inputs and outputs, I did find that by simply collapsing the headers and ds nodes, this reveals itself pretty easily.

[josecgomez]

It does not do a diff, however that is super easy to do using JSONDiff

just copy the ds node from (before) and after but I’ll consider adding that in at some point.

JSON Diff - The semantic JSON compare tool

[JasonMcD (Jason McDermott)]

Perfect, thank you.

[JasonMcD (Jason McDermott)]

Man, I am a fan of this!

I tried a trace in classic on an ordinary process - Auto Job Close - and it led me nowhere. But I did the same in this web tool and got the business object and methods I needed.

I thought this would be more difficult, but it has been easier to use!

JSON Diff works well also. Just saying, even I can understand it.

[josecgomez]

Yeah I use it all the time (instead of classic trace) I think this one is more clear because the requests are a little more controlled / isolated so its easier to find.