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What is Advanced Source Lookup for? [message #1816374] Mon, 28 October 2019 14:54 Go to next message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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Hi

I regularly see Advanced Source Lookup as the current Eclipse activity in the status bar.

I have seen many projects index-the-world in order to optimize a less common use case to the detriment of normal usage. Is Advanced Source Lookup yet another of these?

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.8/jdt.php suggests that "Advanced source lookup affects debug launches only" so surely there should be zero impact until a debug launch occurs? Then why does the Eclipse status bar show Advanced Source Lookup.

Has the original narrow design intent been forgotten?

What does Advanced Source Lookup actually do? It certainly doesn't solve the problem that the debugger needs to be configured to locate project source in the workspace.

Regards

Ed Willink

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Re: What is Advanced Source Lookup for? [message #1816646 is a reply to message #1816374] Mon, 04 November 2019 05:27 Go to previous message
Sarika Sinha is currently offline Sarika SinhaFriend
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Hi Ed,
Yes, Adavanced Source Lookup is active only during Debug launch, So please create a bug and point out when you see the status bar during normal Launch.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506149
When source lookup is requested by the debugger, the captured location is matched to one of workspace projects, their dependencies or artifacts in the remote
artifact repositories. If needed, the corresponding sources archive is located locally or downloaded from remote repositories. Currently
implementation supports JDT java, Maven and PDE projects, but support for other project types can be added via an extension point.

Sarika Sinha
JDT Programmer

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