groovy
Add support for Groovy in Expressions view
How come such a basic feature has not yet implemented? Will it ever be release. Because for me (and all developers I know) this is an absolute showstopper!
Or is there any alternative I'm not aware of?
It is a bit tricky to add support for just Groovy sources and not impact Java sources. STS used aspect-oriented weaving to inject this behavior and we are looking at alternatives to requiring AspectJ.
Feel free to thumbs-up the issue and encourage your friends/colleagues to do so as well to bump the priority.
Maybe it would be easiert to just create a new view? I always wanted to have something like in intellij - a combined variables + expression view (with autocomplete). Manually created expressions are just appended to the list of variables. Currently my debugging workflow (in java) is spread out to variables, expressions and debug/display view - and I always kinda hated that.
That's a good suggestion for the Eclipse JDT team. I'd love to see Expressions, Variables and possibly the Debug/Display console combined into a more unified view. Add to that an extension mechanism to provide support to use any JVM language for expression evaluation, that would be quite desirable!
I added the bug requests:
- extension API: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552561
- combined view: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552562