PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset. It is a client library and gateway server combination that uses Chrome Developer Tools on your browser to debug your application's network traffic and managed object contexts. To use PonyDebugger, you must implement the client in your application and connect it to the gateway server. There is currently an iOS client and the gateway server. PonyDebugger sends your application's network traffic through ponyd, PonyDebugger's proxy server. You use Inspector's Network tools to debug network traffic like how you would debug network traffic on a website in Google Chrome. PonyDebugger forwards network traffic, and does not sniff network traffic. This means that traffic sent over a secure protocol (https) is debuggable. Currently, the iOS client automatically proxies data that is sent via NSURLConnection and NSURLSession methods.
Features
- It will automatically work with AFNetworking
- The Core Data browsing feature allows you to register your application's NSManagedObjectContexts
- Browse data from the IndexedDB section in the Resource tab in Chrome Developer Tools
- PonyDebugger displays your application's view hierarchy in the Elements tab of the Chrome Developer Tools
- You can edit the displayed attributes (i.e. frame, alpha, ...) straight from the Elements tab
- Deleting a node in the elements panel will remove that node from the view hierarchy