[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: XDebug JIT Debugging Issue

[Shawn Clark <shawn_d_clark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For Reference:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259988

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Shawn Clark

Dave Kelsey wrote:
> Hi Shawn, this behaviour is due to the Remote Session initiation only 
> having a dummy source locator defined to it. The source locator is used 
> to locate and open the appropriate source file and it fails to find the 
> file (because it is only a dummy source locator for this session) so 
> falls back on the remapped file (by the path mapper) and opens that 
> absolutely instead.
>
> Could you raise a bugzilla, 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=PDT , to request an 
> enhancement to this ?
>
> Many thanks for looking into this, your explanation and determination of 
> the cause were spot on.
>
> Cheers
> Dave Kelsey
>
> Shawn Clark wrote:
> > This is mainly for you Dave as you seem to be doing most of the fixing 
> > up of XDebug stuff within PDT. I noticed a problem today with the JIT 
> > debugging and how it figures out which file to use.
> >
> > The problem occurs around how the file is loaded into the Eclipse 
> > editor once you specify the path mapping. Hopefully this will be clear 
> > when I show you my scenario.
> >
> > 1. New PDT project (PDT 2.0GA) for a fresh Drupal install (not really 
> > important other than it is a PHP web application)
> > 2. Firefox plugin for XDebug (just used to set the cookies so that a 
> > remote debug session can start)
> > 3. Eclipse is running with the project open. Start a remote debug 
> > session and an Eclipse dialog pops up saying a file within the servers 
> > path of /home/testing/wwwroot/index.php is needing to be mapped. By 
> > default it shows the index.php from within my project.
> > 4. I select it and the file opens up and stops on line 1.
> >
> > Here is where there is problems. The files being opened are absolute 
> > paths within my local machine. In this case my local machine has the 
> > file at e:\testing\wwwroot\index.php. The Eclipse project is at the 
> > wwwroot level. I can step through the code and step into functions and 
> > do some of the basic debugging. The thing is because the file is 
> > opened absolutely (as if it isn't part of the eclipse project) I am 
> > not able to F3 when selecting a function and I can make breakpoints 
> > properly because the breakpoint shows the full path in the breakpoint 
> > view. Now if I am to open the same file within the project and set a 
> > breakpoint there then the code will stop and show in the absolute 
> > pathed file that is open.
> >
> > Not sure how I can explain it other than that so let me know if you 
> > need more information. From what I can tell the JIT for XDebug needs 
> > to somehow open the files as if they are within the Eclipse project 
> > and not absolutely or else they loose some of the PDT functionality.
> >
> > --
> > Shawn Clark
> >
> > P.S. sorry if my grammar is bad tonight. Typing this up late before 
> > calling it a night as I didn't want to forget to post it. :)