TaT DebugFixNB
How To Apply Code Fixes?
Contributed By; Varun Nischal
Just few days back, I talked about that its rather a good practice to debug, not to run! While following that, I discovered another thing, which was there for quite some time, but I didn’t notice it, as I didn’t debug too often.
<target name="debug-fix-nb" if="netbeans.home" depends="init,-pre-debug-fix,compile-single">
<nbjpdareload>
<fileset includes="${fix.class}*.class" dir="${build.classes.dir}"/>
</nbjpdareload>
</target>
| Goto Installation Directory, and look for harness/common.xml It contains many Ant targets, including the above! |
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You must be thinking, what’s debug-fix-nb, its actually an Ant target, ran while we apply Code fixes during Debugging! Shocking, Indeed! I felt the same way too!
How & When, to Apply Code Fixes?
Here lies the trick, while I was debugging a Module in Target Platform, I realized an error just after a break-point, so thought of fixing code, just before error could be detected.
- Then, I came across an Icon in Toolbar,
- whose tool-tip suggested its used for
- So, I made changes wherever needed, and clicked on that Icon, it reloaded that class and the debugging continued, from same point!
Its a cool utility, I was unaware of, hope you won't miss using it...
