SAP MDK Web - Debug Sources

[dominik_miescher]

Hi experts,

I developed an SAP MDK web application that I would now like to debug the local deployment. While the debug sources for my own code are available in the developer console, I would also like to access the debug sources of the MDK web runtime. This would help me better understand the runtime itself and the interaction between the runtime and my application code

Is there a way to enable the debug sources of the SAP MDK Web Runtime?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bill_froelich · Accepted solution]

No, we do not provide the source for the MDK Web Runtime.  Is there a particular question you have regarding the runtime?

[dominik_miescher · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply. When debugging my own rules, I inevitably come across the WebClient coding, and since it is only available in a minimized version, it is difficult to understand exactly what is happening. I have a particular problem with date fields: Firstly, I am trying to understand why it is not possible to leave these fields blank initially. The trick of using a switch to determine whether the user wants to use a date or not does not seem to me to be a timely user experience; it makes the screen layout confusing, especially when multiple date fields are displayed. Other modern applications manage this just fine. Secondly, and this is really only a problem in the web environment, I wanted to understand why I can't display my date and time in the local format. Here in Switzerland, we typically use the format DD.MM.YYYY for the date and HH:mm:ss for the time, where we display the hours in 24-hour format (one o'clock in the afternoon is 13:00 and not 1 pm). So I hoped to find a place in the source code where, for example, a configuration setting is queried that controls the format settings.