Debug batch job / Unit testing

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Hi Friends,

I want to do some unit testing/debug on batch job. Instead going through setting up of configuration on both client and server AOS, is there an easy way to do this?

I simply just want a quick run of batch, batch job is a class extended on RunBaseBatch, has 'main' and 'run' methods.

Many thanks,

River

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Anton Venter 20,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi, you can set your breakpoints and run the job from your AX client instead of in the batch. Sometimes issues occur only in batch not from the AX client. You are then forced to debug the job when it is executing in batch. Does your issue only occur in batch?

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I think it is the same to debug CIL Code.

Open Visual Studio, look for on Application Explorer, the batch job class and open the source code.

After Set a breakpoint in the code and Attach the Visual Studio debugger to the Microsoft Dynamics AX server process (Ax32Serv.exe).

When code execution hits the breakpoint that you set, the context switches to Visual Studio and you can continue to step through the code.

I 've noticed that the recursive code is not executed

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Adolfo Castillo

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Iulian Cordobin 8,201 on at

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Is your client machine's different from the aos machine? In either cases actually, you only need to setup your client machine like mentioned in this post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/x/archive/2009/06/25/step-by-step-checklist-for-debugging-batch-jobs-in-dynamics-ax.aspx

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Ganriver1 1,559 on at

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Hi Anton,

You mean to create a job, and create instance of class to run it?

Here is main() method:

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public static void main(Args _args)

{

myBatchTestClass instance = new myBatchTestClass();

;

if(_args && _args.record() && _args.dataset() == tablenum(myBatchSession))

{

instance.setBatchSession(_args.record());

}

if (!instance.prompt())

return;

instance.run();

}

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How can I run it in job? BTW, I don't know much about this batch.

Thanks,

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Ganriver1 1,559 on at

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HI Adolfo,

I am working with AX 2009, VS 8, will it work?

River

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You have a main() method, so you can just run the class from the AOT (rightclick > open) and should be able to debug it.

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Ganriver1 1,559 on at

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Hi Jens,

I did, but, it pop up form to ask for input. Just wondering how it works when run as batch,

obviously, the main method is not called.

Thanks.

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Dick Wenning 8,705 Moderator on at

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have the ax debugger installed, and uncheck cil at user options.

add your breakpoint and start the batch, but is should start directly

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