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Support "Drop to frame" #235
Description
It's very hand to be able to "drop to frame" (eclipse terminology) while debugging. Basically it allows you to restart at the beginning of a method (or any method on the stack).
This is especially useful when using DCEVM or jrebel to inject code changes and rerun them.
Environment
- Operating System: macOS 10.12.6 (16G1212)
- JDK version: 1.8.0_144-b01
- Visual Studio Code version: 1.20.0 (1.20.0)
- Java extension version: 0.18.1
- Java Debugger extension version:0.6.0
Steps To Reproduce
- set a breakpoint in the middle of a method and break there
Current Result
no way to restart method
Expected Result
key short cut or context menu option on stack to restart at top of method
Reacted by Andy Xu(devdiv)
Activity
akaroml commentedon Mar 2, 2018
Technically, we are able to do so. This happens automatically if you are using Hot Code Replace. But as far as I know, we don't have the menu entry to trigger this function manually. If you right-click on a function of the call stack, the context menu entries are generated by VS Code and cannot be customized.
Yaohai Zheng (@yaohaizh) please double confirm.
mojo2012 commentedon Mar 2, 2018
If it's not possible to customize the menu entries, why not add at least a "command" for this?
yaohaizh commentedon Mar 6, 2018
VSCode provide a mechanism to restart the frame.
Investigate the code in this sprint and targeting release on next Sprint.
yaohaizh commentedon Mar 28, 2018
Merged.
hwellmann commentedon Mar 30, 2022
Note for anyone landing here in search of the "Drop to frame" feature and wondering how to use it:
VS Code now has a 'Restart Frame' action in the stack frame context menu in the CALL STACK viewlet.