[NETBEANS-3580] Expression Lambdas cannot be debugged

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 11.2, 11.3
• Component/s: debugger - Java
• Labels: debug lambda pull-request-available
• Assignee: Akhilesh Singh
• Reporter: Jan Lahoda
• Created: 11/Dec/19 07:32
• Updated: 05/Feb/21 20:58
• Resolved: 21/Apr/20 12:02

Description

Consider this source code:

package org.netbeans.modules.learning.lambda.code.completion;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class NewClass {

    public static void main(String... args) {
        Arrays.stream(new String[] {"a", "", "b"})
              .filter(s -> !s.isEmpty()) //breakpoint here
              .forEach(System.err::println);
{

{    }

}}
}

 

Add a breakpoint at the marked line, and run the code under the debugger. The debugger will stop on the breakpoint for the "filter" method invocation (OK), but it will not stop there for the lambda invocation (bad). So with a code like this, one does not see the lambda parameters, cannot step inside, etc. Workaround is to place the expression on a new line:

{{ .filter(s -> }}
{{ !s.isEmpty()) //breakpoint here}}

But that requires a change to the code just for debugging - and that defies the purpose of debugging (which is to inspect the code without changes).

The IDE is a fully updated Apache NetBeans 11.2, with nb-javac installed running on JDK 13:
Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 11.2
Java: 13.0.1; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 13.0.1+9
Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 13.0.1+9
System: Linux version 4.15.0-72-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
User directory: /tmp/nbuser.lambda.test
Cache directory: /tmp/nbuser.lambda.test/var/cache

Issue Links

• relates to: NETBEANS-4517 Unable to add break-point for Java Stream methods(filter, map, etc)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2055
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