In the last post I created a screencast of how a debug session, which showed which annotations is created.

Now I have posted the robot so it is possible for others to start using the robot. This will allow all users to investigate how the annotations work. I hope it will help you to gain some more knowledge on how annotations work.

Simply add the robot with the name BlipDebug@appspot.com to you wave, and start modify your application. Just be careful and not add the robot to any large waves. This robot is quite disturbing and should only be used for testing purposes.

The Java code to the robot is in the code.google.com repository.

The robot is now approved in the sample gallery.

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Last week I wrote about how to debug robots. Pamala from Google has made guide to debug Gadgets. Just look in http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api/browse_thread/thread/9fca5fde5b56e37e.

It seems quite easy to get  started with, just have a look at her video.

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Debugging robots made in Google Wave can be a little difficult because it can only be tested on the server and it can be difficult to see how it is sent.

A way I have found is quite useful is to use the app engine log. On the log tab select “Requests only” and then see that data being sent to the robot. It is this data the robot can see, if it is not here then the robot API is not receiving the data.

I hope this help you debug and get at better understanding of your robot.

Update 19 aug 2009: If you want to format the JSON try the JSON formatter.

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