I had enabled the "Debug JavaExec tasks" feature, but can not find the debug icon on tasks.

[hjianhao]

Extension Name: vscode-gradle Extension Version: 3.5.2 OS Version: windows 10 VSCode version: 1.15.1

Describe the bug I had enabled the "Debug JavaExec tasks" feature, but can not find the debug icon on tasks.

To Reproduce I had added the following code in settings.json

    "gradle.javaDebug": {
        "clean": true,
        "tasks": [
            "run",
            "runBoot",
            "test",
            "intTest",
            "integration"
        ]
    },

Expected behavior There should be a debug icon on tasks (such as run).

But there is nothing happened.

[badsyntax]

Can you show a screenshot of where you expect the debug icon to appear?

[ugurlu]

same expectations. does not work. Java plugin even does not run Spring Boot application. Gradle Tasks plugin is able start bootRun task. However I cannot debug. Expected debug icon does not appear?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58175607/how-to-debug-bootrun-with-vscode

[badsyntax]

hi @ugurlu The debug icon is displayed in that screenshot. It's the bug icon. Can you confirm, that after adding a breakpoint in your code, and clicking on the bug icon, the breakpoint is not hit?

[ugurlu]

actually this is the expected behavior. My ide does not show bug icon. Only play icon exists. Here is the actualy snapshot

[badsyntax]

Can you share your vscode gradle config?

[ugurlu]

[badsyntax]

Thanks, I will try debug this over the weekend.

[ugurlu]

Thank you for really quick responses. Have a nice day.

[ugurlu]

I think I found possible explanation. my gradle project is multi module project. If "submodule:bootRun" is used instead of "bootRun" debug icon is displayed. Maybe a wildcard can be used? Or search tasks in child projects.

[badsyntax]

Sorry I wasn't able to look at this over the weekend. Thanks for letting me know about this @ugurlu. I should be able to make it greedy quite easily, and I think it makes sense for that to be the default behaviour. I'll look into making this change at some point.

[dboreham]

This issue may be relevant: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-gradle/issues/1118