[lldb-dev] Python API

[Yin Ma]

Hi Loukas,

We are also developing a terminal-based GUI for lldb. Our
Approach is to check the output from lldb to detect
The status change. So far it seems working fine. 
Could you let me know why you use listener approach?
Do you get any case that parsing output doesn't work?

Thanks,

Yin

-----Original Message-----
From: lldb-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:lldb-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Malea, Daniel
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 8:20 AM
To: snare at ho.ax; lldb-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
Cc: Redmond, Paul
Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] Python API

Hi Loukas,

I too have been working on a terminal UI for LLDB (but not GDB) with some
colleagues (CC'd). I will commit what we have thus far shortly and you can
see what we did, and maybe share some efforts/ideas.

BTW, in terms of listeners, we initialize them like so:

self.listener = debugger.GetListener()

        self.listener.StartListeningForEventClass(self.debugger,
  lldb.SBTarget.GetBroadcasterClassName(),
  | lldb.SBTarget.eBroadcastBitBreakpointChanged
  | lldb.SBTarget.eBroadcastBitWatchpointChanged
                                           )

        self.listener.StartListeningForEventClass(self.debugger,
                   
lldb.SBThread.GetBroadcasterClassName(),
                   
lldb.SBThread.eBroadcastBitStackChanged
  |  lldb.SBThread.eBroadcastBitThreadSuspended
  | lldb.SBThread.eBroadcastBitThreadResumed
  | lldb.SBThread.eBroadcastBitSelectedFrameChanged
  | lldb.SBThread.eBroadcastBitThreadSelected
                                           )

        self.listener.StartListeningForEventClass(self.debugger,
  lldb.SBProcess.GetBroadcasterClassName(),
  lldb.SBProcess.eBroadcastBitStateChanged
  | lldb.SBProcess.eBroadcastBitInterrupt
  | lldb.SBProcess.eBroadcastBitSTDOUT
  | lldb.SBProcess.eBroadcastBitSTDERR
  | lldb.SBProcess.eBroadcastBitProfileData
                                           )
        self.listener.StartListeningForEventClass(self.debugger,
  lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.GetBroadcasterClass(),
  lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.eBroadcastBitThreadShouldExit
  | lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.eBroadcastBitResetPrompt
  | lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.eBroadcastBitQuitCommandReceived
  | lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.eBroadcastBitAsynchronousOutputData
  | lldb.SBCommandInterpreter.eBroadcastBitAsynchronousErrorData
                                           )




Cheers,
Dan



On 2013-10-09 10:13 AM, "snare at ho.ax" <snare at ho.ax> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been working on a terminal-based UI for LLDB (and GDB)[1] recently
>and I have a few questions about the Python API.
>
>The way this tool works currently is by registering a new command that
>sends updates to client views, and then registering a stop-hook that
>calls that command whenever the debugger stops.
>
>From looking at the sample python code and the LLDB source I think maybe
>I could do the same thing using SBListener/SBBroadcaster/etc.
>
>I've tried stuff like this:
>
>listener = lldb.SBListener()
>listener.StartListeningForEventClass(lldb.debugger, 'lldb.process',
>0xffffffff)
>while 1:
>   if listener.WaitForEvent(1, event):
>        print('got event: ' + event.GetDataFlavor())
>
>But I don't get notifications for processes starting and stopping.
>
>I've also tried stealing lldb.debugger's listener:
>
>listener = lldb.debugger.GetListener()
>
>Š but that hangs when I get the first event. I suspect maybe that's a
>terrible idea, and not how it's meant to be done when the LLDB CLI has
>created the SBDebugger instance and its listener.
>
>Is it possible to do this from a script run within an existing LLDB
>instance? It seems like all the sample code doing things like this is
>actually instantiating the SBDebugger itself and fully automating the
>debugging session, rather than being imported into LLDB and running from
>there. 
>
>I'd also like to receive notifications for the following events:
>- a new file being loaded
>- a target being run
>- a target exiting
>
>Thanks,
>Loukas
>
>[1] https://github.com/snarez/voltron
>
>
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