# HG changeset patch
# User Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
# Date 1265227376 -3600
# Node ID db672bef1078d20e58da15607bad7a734bf03086
# Parent  a55fb2745644e6d7b08d120301dc88794aaa6010
more details on selectors debugging

diff -r a55fb2745644 -r db672bef1078 doc/book/en/development/devcore/vreg.rst
--- a/doc/book/en/development/devcore/vreg.rst	Wed Feb 03 21:02:39 2010 +0100
+++ b/doc/book/en/development/devcore/vreg.rst	Wed Feb 03 21:02:56 2010 +0100
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@
 with appropriate selectors.
 
 
+.. CustomSelectors_
+
 Defining your own selectors
 ```````````````````````````
 XXX objectify_selector, EntitySelector, EClassSelector...
@@ -192,6 +194,17 @@
 
     2009-01-09 16:43:52 - (cubicweb.selectors) WARNING: selector one_line_rset returned 0 for <class 'cubicweb.web.views.basecomponents.WFHistoryVComponent'>
 
+Take care not filtering-out messages whose log level is <= LOG_WARNING!
 
+You can also give to traced_selection the registry ids of objects on which to debug
+you want to debug selection ('wfhistory' in the example above).
 
-Take care not filtering-out messages whose log level is <= LOG_WARNING!
\ No newline at end of file
+Also, if you're using python 2.4, which as no 'with' yet, you'll have to to it
+the following way:
+
+.. sourcecode:: python
+
+         from cubicweb import selectors
+         selectors.TRACED_OIDS = ('wfhistory',)
+         mycomp = self._cw.vreg['views'].select('wfhistory', self._cw, rset=rset)
+         selectors.TRACED_OIDS = ()