fix for https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/youtrack/issue/trex-369

also added support for interactive debugging with IPython from the
console
(developer mode)

Signed-off-by: imarom <imarom@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/console/trex_console.py b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/console/trex_console.py
index a0ff472d..4329d310 100755
--- a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/console/trex_console.py
+++ b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/console/trex_console.py
@@ -312,6 +312,13 @@ class TRexConsole(TRexGeneralCmd):
     def help_push (self):
         self.do_push("-h")
 
+    def do_debug (self, line):
+        '''Launches IPython for interactively debugging'''
+        self.stateless_client.debug_line(line)
+        
+    def help_debug (self):
+        self.do_debug('-h')
+        
     @verify_connected
     def do_portattr (self, line):
         '''Change/show port(s) attributes\n'''