FirePHP

FirePHP is a (somewhat badly named) ​Firebug extension for Firefox that can show server-side log messages and data relating to a request directly in the Firebug console in the browser.

See the ​FirePHP web site for more information.

Diva provides basic support for sending log messages to FirePHP. I'm thinking about also exposing the template data, and in general providing a function for apps to dump data to FirePHP.

This functionality is implemented by the module diva.ext.firephp. It requires ​simplejson to be installed for Python versions prior to 2.6.

It is implemented by a custom logging handler for the ​logging package from the standard library. FirePHP logging is enabled by default when you use the DevelopmentServer, but is also easy to add for other kinds of deployments, for example:

import logging
from diva.ext.firephp import FirePHPHandler

logging.root.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

logfile = logging.FileHandler('/var/log/myapp/python.log')
logfile.setLevel(log_level)
logfile.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s'))
logging.root.addHandler(logfile)

firephp = FirePHPHandler()
firephp.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logging.root.addHandler(firephp)