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make detail formatter code accessible from JDT [message #1826899]

Mon, 04 May 2020 09:12

Juergen Weber

Messages: 65
Registered: July 2009

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As I understand, after 20 years of Eclipse there is still no hexdump output for byte[] in the debugger.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/381546/how-can-i-display-a-byte-array-as-a-string-in-javas-debug-detail-formatter/381934

I'd like to have byte[] formatted like Linux's hexdump -C

My workaround was to put a static hexDump(byte[] ) method into a jar and drop this into lib/endorsed. So I could use the method as expression in the Expression view.

Starting with Java 9, this no longer works, as lib/endorsed is no longer supported.

How can I make my code accessible to the debug view? Create a plugin? How would I do that?

Alternatively, there is sun.misc.HexDumpEncoder()
How can I make it accessible from the debugger?

Thanks,
Juergen

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Re: make detail formatter code accessible from JDT [message #1826972 is a reply to message #1826899]

Tue, 05 May 2020 14:16

Stephan Herrmann

Messages: 1853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Quote:

As I understand, after 20 years of Eclipse there is still no hexdump output for byte[] in the debugger.

Perhaps nobody has requested this in 20 years? :)

I also commented in SO.

We could certainly provide pointers how to get started rolling your own plug-in, but I see chances that we implement this directly in JDT, if asked :)

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