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Best practice for exception breakpoints in SWT? [message #461192]

Mon, 19 September 2005 12:59

Jonathan Edwards

Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Debugging SWT programs is annoying, because all exceptions are caught in
the SWT event loop. To catch exceptions at the point of origin in the
debugger, you need to pre-establish breakpoints on caught exceptions. I
consider it unacceptable (and archaic) to have to reproduce every error
that throws an exception in order to set up exception breakpoints. There
needs to be a permanent configuration that catches all errors the first
time. A further complication is that there are many places in SWT and
the Java libraries where exceptions are caught normally. So these need
to be filtered out.

It seems that it is necessary to establish individual breakpoints on
every exception you could ever possibly throw in error, and then filter
out the places where other people's code throws them normally. Is there
some technique that avoids this pain?

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Re: Best practice for exception breakpoints in SWT? [message #461589 is a reply to message #461192]

Mon, 26 September 2005 22:52

Steve Northover

Messages: 1636
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

This sounds like Eclipse pain, not SWT pain. SWT catches very few
exceptions and rethrows them when it does.

"Jonathan Edwards" <edwards@csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:dgmcmv$64l$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Debugging SWT programs is annoying, because all exceptions are caught in
> the SWT event loop. To catch exceptions at the point of origin in the
> debugger, you need to pre-establish breakpoints on caught exceptions. I
> consider it unacceptable (and archaic) to have to reproduce every error
> that throws an exception in order to set up exception breakpoints. There
> needs to be a permanent configuration that catches all errors the first
> time. A further complication is that there are many places in SWT and
> the Java libraries where exceptions are caught normally. So these need
> to be filtered out.
>
> It seems that it is necessary to establish individual breakpoints on
> every exception you could ever possibly throw in error, and then filter
> out the places where other people's code throws them normally. Is there
> some technique that avoids this pain?

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