Having understood the different ways to debug web scripts in Alfresco, let's take a look at some of the troubleshooting pointers for some common issues you might come across while working with Alfresco web scripts.
You might have sometimes faced the error A valid SecureContext was not provided in the RequestContext. There can be many reasons for getting this error. Some of them are listed as follows:
When you have set authentication to
nonein the web script description document, and in the controller you are trying to invoke some public services of Alfresco that require authentication, for example, calling thetoDisplayPath()method, it will give you the mentioned exception.If you have a JavaScript-backed controller for your web script and you have deployed it using the repository option and authentication is set to
none, you will get the mentioned exception when you try to hit your web script.