Merge pull request #125 from endlessm/kolibri-debug

Initialize Kolibri debug from KOLIBRI_DEBUG environment variable

README.md

@@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ component of the project's version number.
 
 ### Debugging and advanced usage
 
+#### Kolibri debug mode
+
+When Kolibri is run in debug mode, it uses debug logging for its modules
+and enables Django's debug mode. To enable Kolibri debug mode, start
+kolibri-daemon with the `KOLIBRI_DEBUG` environment variable set to `1`.
+
 #### Web inspector
 
 For development builds, kolibri-gnome enables WebKit developer extras. You can

src/kolibri_daemon/kolibri_utils.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 from kolibri_app.config import ENDLESS_KEY_DATA_DIR
 from kolibri_app.globals import APP_AUTOMATIC_PROVISION
+from kolibri_app.utils import getenv_as_bool
 
 from .content_extensions_manager import ContentExtensionsManager
 
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ def init_kolibri(**kwargs):
     for plugin_name in OPTIONAL_PLUGINS:
         _enable_kolibri_plugin(plugin_name, optional=True)
 
+    # Use the KOLIBRI_DEBUG environment variable for the Kolibri debug
+    # initialization value. This is basically equivalent to how "kolibri
+    # start" works.
+    if "debug" not in kwargs:
+        kwargs["debug"] = getenv_as_bool("KOLIBRI_DEBUG", default=False)
+
     initialize(**kwargs)
 
     if APP_AUTOMATIC_PROVISION: