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HI Team
Whats the best way to debug in the QuantConnect Web IDE so that I can see and explore the various object structures?
- VS allows you to grab objects and click down through them as part of debugging. But running Lean backtests from VS seems to be getting more and more difficult due to the data needs and is being depreceated.
- I like the Debugging side menu on the Web IDE but it assumes you know and can fully specify the object path you want to view. I use the object debugging as a way to learn new objects,
- Ive put in lots of consol write commands but it feels very 1980's and furstrating.
Im guessing there is an easy way everyone does this and hopefully I just need to ask?
Thanks in appreciation
Richard
Jared Broad
Hi Richard,
You can debug in Visual Studio if you have the data. We provide a fake data generator to allow you to create a local source for free. This is not being deprecated, on the contrary, we're investing a lot of effort in making it as easy as possible for C# and Python users to harness our docker containers to quickly run backtesting and debugging, and autocomplete locally.
This is an active project (we literally just finished the technology) and are not finished writing the documentation. Please give it a go if you like the bleeding edge or please give us a month to finish the documentation for this for your local development.
Otherwise, the web IDE supports debugging now but you have to write out the objects "Securities["IBM"].Total.." etc.
Best
Jared
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