New Eclipse Debug Model and CDT Mikhail Khodjaiants April 24, 2020

Asynchronous Viewers

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Migration to the new viewers

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The migration of the Modules view has already done

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Making some internal classes public would be useful (DebugEventHandler, EventHandlerModelProxy) Question: how to add/remove context listeners – DebugContextManger is not accessible

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Content and label providers

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No problems so far with the default adapters provided by the platform

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Customization of the platform views

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Requests to customize the Variables and Registers views

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Flexible Hierarchy

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The current CDT debug model requires adjustments

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API changes are not planned for the next CDT version (3.1)

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Cancelability

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Needs investigation on how it can be effectively applied to our model

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ILaunch still needs IDebugTarget

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Model Proxy

UI Model Proxy Events

Adapters

Requests CDI Requests

CDI Model Backend

CDI Events 4

Others

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Update policy

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Replace the existing update mechanisms

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Investigate the possibility of adding new update features

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Debug context manager

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Retargetable actions

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Flexible view wiring

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Pluggable source lookup

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