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Here is a contribution that adds to the eclipse ant support three new kinds of breakpoints: - File breakpoints: The goal of this breakpoint is to catch all calls to a file. This can be useful to know whether or not a file if being used during a build. - Target breakpoints: This is used to stop on a target with a given name (this is not bound to a file). For example in PDE Build we can use that to see all the calls to a wellknown target that is available in all the build scripts generated - Task breakpoints: This will stop on any invocation of a given task. For example catch all calls to mkdir. The only problem with this contribution is that it does not have any UI counterpart, and I don't really see how this can be made without polluting the breakpoint view. I will open another bug on that topic.
Created attachment 65624 [details] Patch to ant ui Note that this patch has not been tried against with the remote ant logger.
I have opened bug #185154 for the UI integration.
While using the patch I realized that it is not fully functional since hitting "play" once a target breakpoints has been encountered will cause the debugger to halt on the next line of the target.
This would be cool and really help people debugging things like ant-based build scripts. ;-)
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