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Debugging AIF service operations

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Hi,

I'm fairly new to AX, so please bear with me. :)

I have an inbound port that uses a File System Adapter to process some XML.

Once the XML has been transformed into a message, one of the Service operations are called.

What I need to be able to do is to debug / trace what's happening inside the service operation. There's some logic that's not correct in the class, but without the ability to debug or even output some values somewhere, I'm struggling to find the problem.

I've tried calling info("Made it inside the service operation class!"); at the top of the class, restarting the inbound port and then dropping the xml in the folder, but I can't find any output anywhere (even though I know the method gets run from the result of the operation).

If someone can suggest a way of debugging / outputing some data from a service, I'd be very grateful.

All the best,

Dave

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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Like C# has MSIL or Java has bytecode, similary X++ has PCode or CIL

Services in AX run under CIL, so you have to debug CIL.

On TechNet guide is already available with details

Also you can find many tutorials or blog posts such as one here

You must have Visual Studio and you have to attach AOS exe process in VS, to debug services.

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Rudi Hansen 4,075 on at

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I stole this job somewhere that makes it possible to run the AIF Processing manually and then you can debug what is going on in most cases.

The code is for AX2009, but it might work for 2012 as well.

static void runAIFReceive(Args _args) { AifGatewayReceiveService aifGatewayReceiveService; AifInboundProcessingService aifInboundProcessingService; AifOutboundProcessingService aifOutboundProcessingService; AifGatewaySendService aifGatewaySendService; boolean runGatewayReceiveService = false; boolean runInboundProcessingService = false; boolean runOutboundProcessingService = true; boolean runGatewaySendService = true; ; if(runGatewayReceiveService) { aifGatewayReceiveService = new AifGatewayReceiveService(); aifGatewayReceiveService.run(); } if(runInboundProcessingService) { aifInboundProcessingService = new AifInboundProcessingService(); aifInboundProcessingService.run(); // pass true for debug mode } if(runOutboundProcessingService) { aifOutboundProcessingService = new AifOutboundProcessingService(); aifOutboundProcessingService.run(); } if(runGatewaySendService) { AifGatewaySendService = new AifGatewaySendService(); AifGatewaySendService.run(); } }

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Hi David.

So did my job help you?

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For Debugging AIF Service you Can Check This.

·         First, you’ll need Visual Studio installed on the same machine where AOS reside. You’ll also need Dynamics AX Application Explorer component installed as well. The AX Application Explorer is a Visual Studio add-on that is used browse the AX AOT (Application Objects Tree) within Visual Studio. You can install it from the Microsoft Dynamics AX CD by choosing Developer Tools > Visual Studio Tools.
·         Next, open Visual Studio and in the Application Explorer pane expand the AOT (Application Objects Tree) and navigate to the AIF Service. Expand the methods given here and open the method that you want to debug. Add a breakpoint to the code line that you’re interested in.
·         Since AIF Services code is compiled into CIL (Common Intermediate Language) and run on the server, to debug it you’ll need to attach the debugger to the server (Ax32Serv.exe) process. For this, select Debug menu > Attach to Process. Then select ‘Ax32Serv.exe’ and press ‘Attach’. Wait for until the code is attached to the process and all the relevant files and debugging symbols have been loaded into the memory.
·         Now, make the service call from the client application and the control will eventually stop over the break point.

Thanks.

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Hi Rudi,

Thank you for your help. It didn't help in this instance (managed to get VS attached) but I will definitely bear it in mind for the future.

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Thanks Sohaib, managed to get VS attached and traced the problem. :)

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