How to remove action button and add new action button in breakpoints viewlet's action bar?

[Nina0408]

Hi there,

I have some requests as below:

1. How to add a new action button and remove a existing action button from breakpoints viewlet's action bar?
2. How to customize the workflow of persisting breakpoint locations after debug session ended ?

I have not found any doc about it, Please help, Thanks very much!

[isidorn]

1. Not possible. Breakpoints action bar is not contributable to. Though I know @connor4312 wanted something like this
2. Can you clarify this please, I do not know what you mean?

Are you writing an extension or?

[connor4312]

Though I know @connor4312 wanted something like this

For my need I opened a DAP proposal (microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol#137) since it was a generic behavior and adding a button to the breakpoints view would not have been sufficient -- I also wanted to show these breakpoints, which is a large surface area that's not contributable to right now. I wonder if @Nina0408 will face the same issue...

[Nina0408]

Thanks @isidorn
@connor4312 My request is to remove the "add function breakpoint " action button and add "remove the selected breakpoints" action button in below action bar.

My second issue is after the debug session ended, the debuggee file (with some breakpoints on it) will be deleted by our code logic, and at the next time, I will reload a new file with the same name and same content, the previous added breakpoints will not displayed on this new file when start debugging? so I guess the breakpoints information will be deleted when the file is deleted? am I right?

If I want to keep the breakpoints information and re-use it at next time , Can I take over the breakpoint management from vscode?

Thanks!

[weinand]

@Nina0408 yes, VS Code deletes breakpoints when the underlying file is deleted (or renamed).
Instead of deleting the file you could just replace the contents. Then the breakpoint will be preserved.
Or you can re-create the breakpoints through the extension API vscode.debug.addBreakpoint.

@isidorn please correct me if my suggestions from above are incorrect.
BTW, breakpoints are lost if a file is renamed. Why are we not updating the breakpoint instead?

[Nina0408]

@weinand Thank you for your suggestion, I will try this API vscode.debug.addBreakpoint.

[isidorn]

@weinand yes you are correct.
When the file gets renamed we probably get a delete event from the underlying fileService and we get rid of the breakpoints. There probably is not a rename event and that is the reason why we do not just update the breakpoints.

[Nina0408]

Hi @weinand ,

As you suggested, use APIvscode.debug.addBreakpoints in DAP to reload the breakpoints.

So when the debuggee file is deleted, I plan to save the breakpoints line number list into a local file.
And next time , when the debuggee file is recreated, I will call API vscode.debug.addBreakpoints to add the breakpoints back.

But after I checked the api doc as below:

The keys of input parameter "Breakpoint" as below, There is no key for line number which is required to indicate the breakpoint location.

Please advice, Thanks!!

[weinand]

Breakpoint is the base class of all breakpoint types. You are interested in SourceBreakpoint.

[Nina0408]

@weinand I see, Thank you very much!