Yarp: Alternative to the --verbose option

[S-Dafarra]

In yarp-3.4 the --verbose option is deprecated. I was finding this feature particularly handy when using the ResourceFinder as it was helping to debug where a certain file was searched. Nevertheless, if I run yarp resource --find something.ini --verbose, I get

yarp resource --find something.ini --verbose
[WARNING] |yarp.os.ResourceFinder| The 'verbose' option is deprecated.
[WARNING] |yarp.os.ResourceFinder| The 'verbose' option is deprecated.
[ERROR] |yarp.os.Property| cannot read from something.ini
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I simply get a warning, but no alternative and no verbose output. Is there a way to circumvent this?

[PeterBowman]

The verbose option was superseded by logging components in https://github.com/robotology/yarp/commit/301926c2f67c26dba4a7fd28930de99d7ad8c4cc, here and in several other places around YARP's codebase (search for deprecations in the v3.4.0 release notes).

I see the helper toDox method is still there, this is how the verbose output was being printed to console. Now, it takes advantage of yCDebug macros. According to Logging with YARP docs, you should set the YARP_VERBOSE environment variable to 1 in order to enable debug lines in YARP itself:

YARP_VERBOSE=1 yarp resource --find something.ini

[S-Dafarra]

Thanks a lot @PeterBowman, that was exactly what I was looking for.

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