Rules debugger

[FaXaq]

Writting in progress

We have been playing around with rules for quite some time now, but debugging them might be tricky. Would that be possible to have a clear way to debug them ? Wheter, replaying them, or getting the parts logged at some point (giving a clear state of the rules at each time ?)

Moreover, would that be possible to have precompile-errors shown if there is ? (this might require another ticket).

Solution Proposal :

Replay them like a movie. That would be the must, getting to play with states of the rules and getting to run forward and backward with a clear API. Even though it would require to run the rules from the beggining at each time. Like :

var rule = applyRules({debug:true});

rule.run(); //getting the result

rule.playForward(); //getting next step

rule.playBackward(); //getting previous step

rule.getStepsNumber(); //getting all steps number

rule.runToStep(4); //getting rule run until step 4

//and some other that might be relevant

With that API we could make a good UI debugger and facilitate our rule implementation process.

Not touching the current state without the debug option:

var rule = applyRules()