In this brief article I would like to share a few strategies to run objectscript code in debug mode.

How to enter debug mode

There are two ways to launch the debugger.

Launching a command

Let's suppose that we have to debug the following method

Class Custom.Example Extends %RegisteredObject
{

/// check if a string can be a valid STP code ("STP" + 13 digits)
/// w ##class(Custom.Example).

Hello, first question for me:

Is there a way to use a class Parameter in embedded SQL without having to declare a local variable, in a similar way to how it is done with Property by preponing i% as described here. See my example:

Class Test.Test Extends %RegisteredObject
{ 
Parameter MyParam = "1";  
Property MyProperty;  
(...)
Method PerformQuery() {
    set myParamLocalVar = ..#MyParam //this is what I would like to avoid
    &sql(SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE
        WHERE MY_PROPERTY = :i%MyProperty
        AND MY_PARAM = :myParamLocalVar)
    (...)
}
}