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Tuomas Toivonen
Tuomas Toivonen

Reputation: 23512

How to step through only certain packages in IntelliJ debugger

I'm debugging implementation with heavy use of method references. Indirection is used to enable logging and error handling aspects around module executions.

It's easy to step into referenced method using debugger, but stepping out back to call site is cumbersome. The stack contains a lot of proxy classes and aspects between call site and method under execution as shown in this image

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Is it possible to configure step into and step out functions to skip classes not belonging to certain package? I know it's possible to use class filters on breakpoints, but I would need familiar feature with step functions.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 553

Answers (1)

Michal Krasny
Michal Krasny

Reputation: 5926

In the Intellij Idea there is quite a lot of tweaking in Settings/Preferences | Build, Execution, Deployment | Debugger | Stepping. Make sure you check the Always do smart step into option. The option Skip synthetic methods may be what you need, you can also configure to skip some packages. More documentation here https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/stepping-through-the-program.html#smart-step-into

Upvotes: 3

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