Calling custom functions in Intellij IDEA exception breakpoint conditions

Question

For debugging Kotlin/Java projects in IDEA I am using filters such as !(this instanceof java.lang.ClassNotFoundException) to ignore certain exceptions.

To make these filters easier to maintain and reuse across installations I tried wrapping them in a function and calling that function in the breakpoint condition like:

app.AppKt.isDebugException(this)

This works for exceptions thrown by my local code but breaks with any exceptions thrown by java.lang and third party libraries with a "Breakpoint Condition Error" due to the condition throwing a ClassNotFound exception.

Is there a way to load my AppKt class into IDEA so that the debugging tools will be able to invoke my isDebugException function from anywhere?

Answer 1

The problem here is that your AppKt is not visible from the bootstrap classloader or the third-party libs classloader. No easy solution for now, please follow discussions in IDEA-12111 and related issues.