debug-window-dump README

This extension reads out the debugger state when the debugger is paused. It dumps the content of the local window into a JSON file.

How to use the extension

Just start the debugger of your choice (Python, C++, ...). When the software is stopped (e.g. due to a breakpoint), tigger the command "Debug Window Dump". This will extract the current local variables and ask for a output file name, where the result is stored as unformatted JSON (can be formatted afterwards using the "Format Document" command in VSCode).

Note: If you change the current debug function by clicking on a different function in the stack trace. The dump will target the newly active function and extract the local variables of this scope.

Features

• Dumps content of the local window into a JSON f
• The max hierarchy of the dumped content is limited to 10

0.0.1

• Initial release

0.0.2

• Remove the limit of 1000 containers
• Allow setting the recursion depth (hierarchy) via the settings
• Fix debug dump for Python takes very long due to internal methods which are dumped

0.0.3

• Ensure dump is created even if one of the debug requests returns invalid data

0.0.4

• Speed up dump creation by using parallel debugger requests