Re: [platform-debug-dev] GSoC Proposal "Expand selected variables butto

[Ali Ok <aliok@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I would like to implement this. I haven't implemented before. The video or the pictures were about current "variables view".

I first thought about "specialized Copy action" like you said, however current copy action already copies what has expanded in the view. So the problem is, expanding the variables. 
If you(or someone else) are willing to mentor me, I can change the proposal to "specialized Copy action", if that is the best.

> One major problem that you're going to encounter is that if you would
> like to make your feature work with any debugger (and thus be
> applicable in the Platform Debug project), you cannot make your feature
> dependent on the debug model information.  So features like "exapand
> static variables" are not practical to implement, and also are more
> appropriately solved with view filters rather than expand action
> variants.  Really the only variants of your feature that I can see
> being practially implemented is "copy n levels" and "copy
> (exclude/include matches of regexp).

I was thinking of using reflection API for expanding operations, or the mechanism used in current expand (+) buttons. Will this operation depends on debugger?

I think Platform-Debug and JDT-Debug is different, right? This button will be available in Java debugging process. So, the main problem here is, I have forgotten writing this to my proposal .

Support for other languages will be impossible using just Java Reflection API. So, other languages are not going to be supported.

I will update my proposal after some confirmation from you.

Thanks for the comments,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ali,
I wasn't sure what GSoC stood for until now, so now I unserstand that this is a proposal for work you would like to perform rather than something you've alreay implemented. 

My suggestion is that rather than implementing a specialized expand action, you should implement a specialized Copy action.  I would create a single "Copy Special..." action which opens a dialog where you can specify additional parameters. 

One major problem that you're going to encounter is that if you would like to make your feature work with any debugger (and thus be applicable in the Platform Debug project), you cannot make your feature dependent on the debug model information.  So features like "exapand static variables" are not practical to implement, and also are more appropriately solved with view filters rather than expand action variants.  Really the only variants of your feature that I can see being practially implemented is "copy n levels" and "copy (exclude/include matches of regexp).

Cheers,
Pawel

Ali Ok wrote:

Hi all,

I published my proposal at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Expand_Selected_Variables_Button_in_Debug.
Here is a video about my proposal(use Firefox please): http://aliok.info/2009/03/here-is-video-about-my-gsoc-proposal-to.html

And here is my proposal at Google Code: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/list_self/google/gsoc2009/aliok
I think my proposal at Google Code is not public. It has a lot of information like schedule and etc.
Should I publish that?

Kind Regards,
Ali


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