How to debug a serial generator plugin?

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.1
-- HikaSerial version -- : 1.10.2
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.8

Hi,
I'm working on a custom serial generator plugin.
Now I need to debug my code.

But I can't find a way to execute/call the generate hook/method.
Can you tell me the url to manually call it for a certain order ID / pack ID?
That would make thinks way easier for me.

Thanks!

Hi Jerome,

I tried the 'generate' button. Works nicely but I really need to test it with an order as the generator requires product details.

Unfortunately I had no success to use the add pack / refresh associations button.
(the add pack function seems weird, I have to add qty > 1 or refresh the page to see it has been added.)

Then, when I click refresh associations, *nothing* seems to happen.
Seems like my generator function isn't even called.
At the moment, my generate function will just log some debug infos, and I verified it works in pack generation.
But it doesn't seem to be called when refreshing associations.
Maybe my pack settings aren't correct?

For debugging I stripped my generate function down to:

public function generate(&$pack, &$order, $quantity, &$serials) {
		$debuginfo = '';
		$serial = 'xx';
		$debuginfo.= print_r($pack,true)."\n\n\n";
		$debuginfo.= print_r($order,true)."\n\n\n";
		file_put_contents(__DIR__.'/debug.log',$debuginfo);

		for($q = 0; $q < $quantity; $q++) {
			$serial = $serial.'_reply';
			$serials[] = $serial;
		}

		return true;
	}

Hi Jerome, you were too fast
I was just about to post new info about the problem.

My pack is set up to use no pack data.

Clicking refresh associations will always remove existing serials but not generate new ones.
I tracked down the executed task to refresh() function in admin hikaserial/classes/order.php.

Last lines of the function are:

		if(in_array($order->order_status, $statuses)) {
			$this->assignSerials($order);
		} else {
			$this->unassignSerials($order);
		}

Weird. It's working now.
Didn't really change anything though.
Maybe a configuration resave or something fixed it.

One last question.
Seems refresh associations doesn't generate the serial,
if there already is a serial assigned. Is this the desired behaviour?
If so, is there a way to force the re-generation, even if they already were generated?

Ah now I do understand what you were telling me
Great everything's working perfectly now.
Thanks for your help Jerome!