The most common question on developing Teaclave is how to use Rust IDEs to improve the development experience, e.g., code completions, type hints and cross references. Internally, these features are supported by either RLS or rust-analyzer. Unfortunately, these features are not supported in Teaclave's codebase out-of-box. The reason is that Teaclave has components targeting different environments (SGX enclave and Linux app) which need different set of dependencies (SGX crates and vanilla crates). To support this flexible building and linking process, we are using cmake for our build system. However, there are still ways to workaround and let the analyzer understand the project structures.
When developing SGX enclaves and corresponding dependent crates, you need to prepare a Cargo.toml
in the root directory to help the analyzer. This Cargo.toml
file can be copied from our build system: cmake/tomls/Cargo.sgx_trusted_lib.toml
. Similarly, when developing the app parts, you can copy the cmake/tomls/Cargo.sgx_untrusted_lib.toml
file to the root directory as Cargo.toml
. For standalone Rust applications such as CLI, no Cargo.toml
is needed. After the preparation of Cargo.toml
in root, RLS/rust-analyzer can understand the projects finally. You will see type hints and cross references using IDEs with extensions.
Teaclave utilizes the env_logger
crate to configure the display of debug logs via environment variables.
Logging is controlled via the TEACLAVE_LOG
environment variables and the value of this variable is a comma-separated list of logging directives in the parth::to::module=level
form. For example, you can set the environment TEACLAVE_LOG=attestation=debug
before launching a service to print the debug level (and higher-level) logs in the attestation
module to stdout/stderr. There are five logging levels: error
, warn
, info
, debug
and trace
where error represents the highest-priority log level. Furthermore, you can also filter the results with regular expression by simply put /
followed by a regex in the directives in the environment variable. You can find more filter usages in the env_logger
's document.
::: tip NOTE To prevent sensitive information leakage through logging, for the release build, we disable all logging (at build time) lower than the info
level. That is, only error
, warn
and info
logs will be printed. :::