Description Didier Loiseau 2015-03-18 07:31:59 EDT

The current (default) display of the logical structure for maps remains quite difficult to use since the map is converted to an array:
- the Map "fields" are shown as array indexes, which is useless in most cases (the index does not have a meaning for most map implementations);
- the Map values are shown using the default Map.Entry.toString() (e.g. "key=value"), but it is not always readable and does not allow to use the detail formatter of the keys and values.

My idea would thus be that the "fields" of a Map would be dynamically computed as the entry key, and of course their associated value would be the entry value.

The grouping of keys by 100 items should remain though.

It think this could be configured by defining a "Dynamic List of variables" as the logical structure, providing 3 code snippets to evaluate:
- the conversion to an Iterable or Array
- the computation of the "key" for each item in the previously computed iterable
- the computation of the corresponding "value"

For reference, I found a SO question asking for this feature:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7275520/eclipse-debugging-hashmap-logical-structure-using-key-and-values-tostring-me