Debugging code that call $resource in Angular with a Proxy

In angular you can add REST service using $resource factory, for instance you can create new REST object like this:

var studies =  $resource('http://example.com/api/studies/:id', {
  id: '@id'
}, {
  get: {
    method: 'GET',
    cache: false,
    interceptor: {
      response: doInterceptStudy
    }
  },
  query: {
    method: 'GET',
    cache: false,
    params: {
      size: 20
    }
  },
  lasarLookup: {
    bypassUiBlockInterceptor: true,
    method: 'GET',
    cache: false,
    params: {
      size: 20
    }
  },
  filteredQueryAll: {
    url: 'http://example.com/api/studies',
    method: 'POST',
    cache: false,
    params: {
      size: 20
    }
  }
});

and then call it using:

studies.get({id:123}, function(user) {
  $scope.user = user;
});

In chrome you can add breakpoint on XHR request but you will probably end up in angular code when you do that.

It’s probably better ot add breakpoint to lines where you call your $resource like studies.get, but if you have responses with lot of endpoints that are called in different places this is troublesome. But there is quick solution to add breakpoint on every call to resource with a ES6 proxy

studies = new Proxy(studies, {
    get: function(target, name) {
        if (typeof target[name] == 'function') {
            return function() {
                return target[name].apply(target, [].slice.call(arguments));
            };
        } else {
            return target[name];
        }
    }
 });

and you can add breakpoint inside function returned by get proxy method or you can add dubbugger statement:

studies = new Proxy(studies, {
    get: function(target, name) {
        if (typeof target[name] == 'function') {
            return function() {
                debugger;
                return target[name].apply(target, [].slice.call(arguments));
            };
        } else {
            return target[name];
        }
    }
 });

The support for Proxies is pretty decent, only IE don’t support it. You can check browser support on can I use.