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id: functions-debug-localrun title: Debug with localrun mode sidebar_label: “Debug with localrun mode”

In localrun mode, a function consumes and produces actual data to a Pulsar cluster, and mirrors how the function runs in a Pulsar cluster. This provides a way to test your function and allows you to launch a function instance on your local machine as a thread for easy debugging.

:::note

Debugging with localrun mode is only available for Java functions in Pulsar 2.4.0 or later versions.

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Before using localrun mode, you need to add the following dependency.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pulsar</groupId>
    <artifactId>pulsar-functions-local-runner-original</artifactId>
    <version>${pulsar.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
    <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
    <version>3.21.9</version>
</dependency>

For example, you can run your function in the following manner.

FunctionConfig functionConfig = new FunctionConfig();
functionConfig.setName(functionName);
functionConfig.setInputs(Collections.singleton(sourceTopic));
functionConfig.setClassName(ExclamationFunction.class.getName());
functionConfig.setRuntime(FunctionConfig.Runtime.JAVA);
functionConfig.setOutput(sinkTopic);

LocalRunner localRunner = LocalRunner.builder().functionConfig(functionConfig).build();
localRunner.start(true);

You can debug functions using an IDE. Set breakpoints and manually step through a function to debug with real data.

The following code example shows how to run a function in localrun mode.

public class ExclamationFunction implements Function<String, String> {

    @Override
    public String process(String s, Context context) throws Exception {
        return s + "!";
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        FunctionConfig functionConfig = new FunctionConfig();
        functionConfig.setName("exclamation");
        functionConfig.setInputs(Collections.singleton("input"));
        functionConfig.setClassName(ExclamationFunction.class.getName());
        functionConfig.setRuntime(FunctionConfig.Runtime.JAVA);
        functionConfig.setOutput("output");

        LocalRunner localRunner = LocalRunner.builder().functionConfig(functionConfig).build();
        localRunner.start(false);
    }
}