Running WB 5.x plugin in WB 6 fails

[Karsten Wutzke]

Hello,

I've been away from my plugin I developed until 1-2 years ago. Some things have changed in WB 6 now (using 6.0.9).

I still have the plugin jpa_export_plugin_grt.py in my user's modules directory and it's still in the list in the UI under Tools -> Catalog -> Export JPA Annotated Classes...

However, when executing the script a dialog pops up saying:

Error during "Export JPA Annotated Classes..."

mforms: attempt to add a subview already contained somewhere

I see this is some kind of check from the mforms lib when a subview already has a parent, but since the code worked on previous WB versions (namely 5.1 and 5.2) I have to find out what it is.

How do I debug this?

I can't seem to achieve anything useful from the scripting shell >>> prompt.

Using

execfile('C:\\Users\\MYSELF\\AppData\\Roaming\\MySQL\\Workbench\\modules\\jpa_export_plugin_grt.py')

just does absolutely nothing.

I also removed the code that actually shows up the options UI, but this doesn't seem to have any effect?

What's wrong? It seems like the code gets/got cached somewhere.

Karsten