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Bug 323962

Summary:	Cannot add detail formatter for byte[]
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Juergen Weber <juergen>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ivan.outer, Michael_Rennie
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Juergen Weber

2010-08-30 08:34:01 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

I'd like to have a byte[] formatted like the output of Linux's hexdump -C
Unfortunately it looks like it is not possible to find primitive types in the "Select Type" dialog of "Add Detail Formatter"
It should be possible for primitive types and arrays of primitive types, too.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ivan

2012-08-15 09:18:54 EDT

Want it too, not fixed in 20120614-1722.
Why doesn't Eclipse resolve e.g. "[B" class name and other primitives and arrays of classes/primitives?
While debugging it is often useful to see some buffer content as a String (or something else). Especially when you work with HTTP or other text related protocols.

Comment 2 Juergen Weber

2014-05-07 05:27:02 EDT

Found a workaround:

write a static method
public static String hexdump(byte[] b)

and put this into a jar in jre/lib/endorsed of the VM Eclipse runs in.

Then you can use in Expressions View an expression like Hexdump.hexdump(myarry)

Comment 3 Michael Rennie

2014-05-12 13:48:26 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 187922 ***