Send connector debug (highlight) using RPC (#11536)

Change-Id: I8995e9affd371543457f16568f1245f7467e0804

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ApplicationConnection.java b/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ApplicationConnection.java
index 2f5401a75b..4dd68cc24f 100644
--- a/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ApplicationConnection.java
+++ b/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ApplicationConnection.java
@@ -691,12 +691,12 @@ public class ApplicationConnection {
      * source code.
      * 
      * @param serverConnector
+     * @deprecated as of 7.1. Replaced by
+     *             {@link UIConnector#showServerDebugInfo(ServerConnector)}
      */
+    @Deprecated
     void highlightConnector(ServerConnector serverConnector) {
-        String params = getRepaintAllParameters() + "&"
-                + ApplicationConstants.PARAM_HIGHLIGHT_CONNECTOR + "="
-                + serverConnector.getConnectorId();
-        makeUidlRequest("", params);
+        getUIConnector().showServerDebugInfo(serverConnector);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ui/ui/UIConnector.java b/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ui/ui/UIConnector.java
index bba9252d47..38c26a77e6 100644
--- a/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ui/ui/UIConnector.java
+++ b/client/src/com/vaadin/client/ui/ui/UIConnector.java
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import com.vaadin.client.ConnectorHierarchyChangeEvent;
 import com.vaadin.client.ConnectorMap;
 import com.vaadin.client.Focusable;
 import com.vaadin.client.Paintable;
+import com.vaadin.client.ServerConnector;
 import com.vaadin.client.UIDL;
 import com.vaadin.client.VConsole;
 import com.vaadin.client.communication.StateChangeEvent;
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ import com.vaadin.shared.communication.MethodInvocation;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ComponentStateUtil;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.Connect;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.Connect.LoadStyle;
+import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ui.DebugWindowServerRpc;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ui.PageClientRpc;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ui.PageState;
 import com.vaadin.shared.ui.ui.ScrollClientRpc;
@@ -659,4 +661,18 @@ public class UIConnector extends AbstractSingleComponentContainerConnector
                             .getName(), "poll"));
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Sends a request to the server to print details to console that will help
+     * the developer to locate the corresponding server-side connector in the
+     * source code.
+     * 
+     * @since 7.1
+     * @param serverConnector
+     *            the connector to locate
+     */
+    public void showServerDebugInfo(ServerConnector serverConnector) {
+        getRpcProxy(DebugWindowServerRpc.class).showServerDebugInfo(
+                serverConnector);
+    }
 }