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frb-debugging

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Use when generated code looks wrong, code generation fails, or you need to understand FRB internals

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How to use this skill

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FRB Debugging

Note: Check your user-level remote-testing rules before running commands. Codegen and debugging may require remote execution.

When to Use

  • Generated code looks wrong
  • Code generation fails
  • Need to understand FRB internals
  • Runtime errors in generated code

Quick Diagnostics

Dump Intermediate Representations

The in-tree examples by default enable dump_all: true in flutter_rust_bridge.yaml for debugability.

Therefore, you can check rust/target/frb_dump/ for:

  • Effective configuration
  • IR (intermediate representation)
  • Generated spec and code
  • ...

Debug Logs

RUST_LOG=debug flutter_rust_bridge_codegen ...

Full Troubleshooting

If above doesn't help, see:

  • website/docs/docs/guides/contributing/tip.md
  • website/docs/manual/troubleshooting.md

Before going deep into FRB internals, first check whether you are actually seeing failure propagation from unstable generated outputs or integrate templates.

In particular:

  • If CI failures may be explained by failure propagation, repeated package-level drift, or unstable generated outputs, you MUST use frb-fix-ci first
  • You MUST only stay in frb-debugging after frb-fix-ci has ruled out those simpler explanations

Related Skills

  • frb-code-generation - Which generation commands to run
  • frb-fix-ci - Diagnose CI failure propagation before deep debugging
  • frb-develop-feature - Development workflow