My current IDE of choice, Komodo, brings native support for the DBGp protocol to debug source code either locally or from a remote server. It has however some issues with its path mapping implementation.
Since it’s not the first time I stumbled upon this kind of issue (my previous Eclipse PDT experience was troublesome too) I finally tried to solve it. The solution is an intercepting proxy server which listen for connection from the debugger to modify the messages it sends to the IDE with custom path mappings.
To define the path mappings we use a file with a set of paths on each line. The path tuples are separated by the => operator, placing the path understood by the debugger on the left side and on the right the path as understood by the IDE. The file looks like this.
# Mapping for projects
file:///var/www/projects => file:///c:/documents%20and%20settings/drslump/projects
# this one is for my subdomains
file:///var/www/subdomains => file:///c:/subdomains
The path mappings are case insensitive to avoid problems on Windows.
To run the path mapper server we just need to call it from a terminal like so:
php5 dbgp-mapper.php -i 192.168.0.5 -m dbgp.map
The -i option specifies the IP or host of the computer where the IDE is running, while the -m option points to the file where the path mappings are defined. There are also other options which you can check by seeing the help using the -h argument.
By default it will bind itself to the port 9000, which is DBGp default one, so if you are running this on the same computer as your IDE you will have to change the port either in this tool or on your IDE.
The source is available via this subversion repository
Update: It seems that Komodo uri mapping works properly after version 4.2.0. In my case I was having problems but after rebooting the system it started to work properly.
