Simple howto debugging openerp7 with intellij idea on windows

Prerequests:

• installed IntelliJ Idea 12

  (www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/)

• installed Openerp7 openerp-allinone-setup-7.0-latest.exe

  (www.openerp.com/start?download)

Step by step:

• install intellij python plugin

  file->settings->plugins->install jetbrains plugins->python->install

• download and install python 2.6 (i prefere portable version)

  portablepython.com/wiki/PortablePython1.1Py2.6.1/

• copy listed files from portable python (F:\PortableApps\PortablePython_1.1_py2.6.1\App\)

  to openerp (F:\OpenERP 7.0-20130731-231106\Server\server\):
  python.exe
  Lib\site.py
  Lib\Queue.py
  Lib\trace.py

• create new python project (openerp7debug) and configure python sdk

  file->new project->python module->openerp7debug->next->Python Interpreter->Configure-> +
  ->Python SDK->local->F:\OpenERP 7.0-20130731-231106\Server\server\python.exe->next->finish

• right click openerp7debug->new->python file->openerp-server.py->add content

    import openerp
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        openerp.cli.main()

   

  Edit configuration...-> + -> Python->Name: Debug openerp7->Script: F:\Users\orlov\YandexDisk\Work\openerp7debug\openerp-server.py->
  Script parameters: "–config=F:\OpenERP 7.0-20130731-231106\Server\server\openerp-server.conf"->
  Working directory: F:\OpenERP 7.0-20130731-231106\Server\server->OK

• add breakpoint (on line openerp.cli.main() for example) and click debug, test breakpoints, inspect vars, test UI from browser
  
• Happy debugging!