Debug Perspective Auto Closer

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Automatically opens previous perspective when debugging ends.

Behaviors: (configurable: Preferences -> Debug Perspective Auto Closer)
1) [default] when all debug launches have terminated, changes to perspective active on first launch
2) when any debug launch has terminated, changes to perspective active on that launch

Remarks:
- Only changes perspective when in debug perspective.

Source:
https://github.com/GammaWolf/eclipse-debug-perspective-auto-closer-plugin

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Eclipse Versions:

2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9), Photon (4.8), Oxygen (4.7), 2020-06 (4.16)

Platform Support:

Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Date Created:

Fri, 2018-12-28 21:41

Development Status:

Alpha

License:

MIT

Date Updated:

Mon, 2020-04-20 13:21

Submitted by:

Francesco **********

Metrics

Date	Ranking	Installs	Clickthroughs
May 2020	406/863	36 (0.01%)	17
April 2020	383/891	56 (0.01%)	20
March 2020	429/892	43 (0.01%)	10
February 2020	459/885	31 (0.01%)	11
January 2020	370/871	55 (0.01%)	12
December 2019	384/876	47 (0.01%)	8
November 2019	376/900	56 (0.01%)	18
October 2019	459/888	36 (0.01%)	11
September 2019	477/878	30 (0.01%)	19
August 2019	398/900	45 (0.01%)	7
July 2019	489/911	31 (0.01%)	17
June 2019	523/919	21 (0%)	8

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 19:00

Doesn't always work?

Submitted by Ivan B on Sun, 2020-03-29 12:32

Hi Francesco.

Thank you for your efforts.

I tried the plugin in 2019-12 and 2020-03 and it doesn't seem to work. Any clues?

In Error Log however I do see some activities related to plugin:

eclipse.buildId=4.14.0.I20191210-0610
java.version=13.0.1
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments:  -data file:/<full_path>/ -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

1)
org.eclipseplugins.autoclosedebugperspective
OK
Sun Mar 29 19:22:27 EEST 2020
launched org.eclipse.debug.core.Launch@4e88ef1e

2)
org.eclipseplugins.autoclosedebugperspective
OK
Sun Mar 29 19:22:56 EEST 2020
launchesTerminated

Re: Doesn't always work?

Submitted by Francesco ********** on Sat, 2020-04-04 15:35

Hello Ivan,

unfortunately, I couldn't repoduce the issue. I've just tested it with a fresh version 2020-03 and a simple java project and it worked for me. The log entries do not show an Error/Exception. The log statements indicate that the plugin noticed the debug launch and the debug termination. It should have switched back to the previous perspective if
1) debugging was started from a (non-debug) perspective and
2) the debug perspective was active when the debugging ended
If it didn't switch back under those conditions, it could be an issue if not the standard debug perspective was used.

I would need specific reproduction steps to investigate further. I've added a contact mail address to the plugin description.

Why a separate plugin?

Submitted by Pierre-Yves B. on Wed, 2019-01-16 11:31

There quite a popular bug to fix this in Eclipse (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=46336), I'm wondering why you didn't contribute to the IDE directly rather than create a separate plugin. ;)

Re: Why a separate plugin?

Submitted by Francesco ********** on Wed, 2019-01-16 17:25

For those reasons:

1) The bug report:
a) After I had read the bug discussion, it wasn't clear to me how they wanted it exactly. There are comments about switching to the initial perspective, but comment 33 it says it should switch to the perspective set in the preferences.
b) It seems to be a very long process. In 2011 there was a patch submitted but it took more than 4 months for someone to look at it. After that nothing happened.
2) I am not familiar with the eclipse internals.

I feared that it might take too long or get bogged down.
By doing it as a plugin it's faster out there (and can be used with older eclipse versions).

If the behavior of the plugin is close enough to what the maintainers want, I would be willing to attempt to write a patch for it.

I thought it would be good to get some feedback and bug reports for the plugin first.

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