Pine Execution Map

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Pine Script Execution Map

Overview:
This is an educational script for Pine Script developers. The script includes data structure, functions/methods, and process to capture and print Pine Script execution map of functions called while pine script execution.

Map of execution is produced for last/latest candle execution.

The script also has example code to call execution map methods and generate Pine Execution map.

Use cases:

• Pine script developers can get view of how the functions are called
  
• This can also be used while debugging the code and know which functions are called vs what developer expect code to do
  
• One can use this while using any of the open source published script and understand how public script is organized and how functions of the script are called.
  

Code components:

User defined type

Pine Script®

method called internally by other methods to generate level of function being executed

Pine Script®

Method called from main/global scope to record execution of main scope code. There should be only one call to this method at the start of global scope.

Pine Script®

Method called from main/global scope to record end of execution of main scope code. There should be only one call to this method at the end of global scope.

Pine Script®

Method called from start of each function to record execution of function code

Pine Script®

Method called from end of each function to record end of execution of function code

Pine Script®

Pine code which generates execution map and show it as a label tooltip.

Pine Script®

Snapshot 1:
This is the output of the script and can be viewed by hovering mouse pointer over the blue color diamond shaped label


Snapshot 2:
How to read the Pine execution map