Debugging in eclipse . Extract variables to excel sheet

Question

Am debugging my application using eclipse. I have a list which has 100 objects within it. I need to extract the values of those hundred objects in to an excel sheet in debug-window and i should compare. Is there anyway in eclipse I can do it while debugging ??

Right now, I wrote a program which will write in to an excel and am doing it which is very painful as I have to delete that code before moving it to production.

It would be good, if the debug plug-in itself has an option for this . can this be done ?

This will reduce our analysis timing

Answer 1

You can execute code during debug in eclipse Display View Go to Window -> Show View -> Display View

You can write code to see the value of the expressions during debugging, you should be able to write code to extract values into excel.

Answer 2

If your issue is that you have to remove the code before going in to production then a simple way to avoid this is to use the log levels for your logger. For example:

if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
  // Your debug code
}

In your production code your log level is above debug , so the code won't be called.