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Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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/* Python DAP interpreter
Copyright (C) 2022-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "python-internal.h"
#include "interps.h"
#include "cli-out.h"
#include "ui.h"
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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class dap_interp final : public interp
{
public:
explicit dap_interp (const char *name)
Rewrite output redirection and logging This patch changes how gdb output redirection is done. Currently, output is done via the UI. gdb_stdout, for example, is a define the expands to an lvalue referencing a field in the current UI. When redirecting, this field may temporarily be reset; and when logging is enabled or disabled, this is also done. This has lead to bugs where the combination of redirection and logging results in use-after-free. Crashes are readily observable; see the new test cases. This patch upends this. Now, gdb_stdout is simply an rvalue, and refers to the current interpreter. The interpreter provides ui_files that do whatever rewriting is needed (mostly for MI); then output is forward to the current UI via an indirection (see the new ui::passthrough_file). The ui provides paging, logging, timestamps, and the final stream that writes to an actual file descriptor. Redirection is handled at the ui layer. Rather than changing the output pipeline, new ui_files are simply swapped in by rewriting pointers, hopefully with a scoped_restore. Redirecting at the ui layer means that interpreter rewriting is still applied when capturing output. This fixes one of the reported bugs. Not changing the pipeline means that the problems with the combination of redirect and logging simply vanish. Logging just changes a flag and doesn't involve object destruction. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17697 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28620 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28798 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28948 Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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: interp (name)
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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{
Rewrite output redirection and logging This patch changes how gdb output redirection is done. Currently, output is done via the UI. gdb_stdout, for example, is a define the expands to an lvalue referencing a field in the current UI. When redirecting, this field may temporarily be reset; and when logging is enabled or disabled, this is also done. This has lead to bugs where the combination of redirection and logging results in use-after-free. Crashes are readily observable; see the new test cases. This patch upends this. Now, gdb_stdout is simply an rvalue, and refers to the current interpreter. The interpreter provides ui_files that do whatever rewriting is needed (mostly for MI); then output is forward to the current UI via an indirection (see the new ui::passthrough_file). The ui provides paging, logging, timestamps, and the final stream that writes to an actual file descriptor. Redirection is handled at the ui layer. Rather than changing the output pipeline, new ui_files are simply swapped in by rewriting pointers, hopefully with a scoped_restore. Redirecting at the ui layer means that interpreter rewriting is still applied when capturing output. This fixes one of the reported bugs. Not changing the pipeline means that the problems with the combination of redirect and logging simply vanish. Logging just changes a flag and doesn't involve object destruction. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17697 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28620 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28798 Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28948 Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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m_ui_out = std::make_unique<cli_ui_out> (m_stdout.get ());
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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}
~dap_interp () override = default;
void do_init (bool top_level) override;
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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void suspend () override
{
}
void resume () override
{
}
Simplify interp::exec / interp_exec - let exceptions propagate This patch implements a simplication that I suggested here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-March/186320.html Currently, the interp::exec virtual method interface is such that subclass implementations must catch exceptions and then return them via normal function return. However, higher up the in chain, for the CLI we get to interpreter_exec_cmd, which does: for (i = 1; i < nrules; i++) { struct gdb_exception e = interp_exec (interp_to_use, prules[i]); if (e.reason < 0) { interp_set (old_interp, 0); error (_("error in command: \"%s\"."), prules[i]); } } and for MI we get to mi_cmd_interpreter_exec, which has: void mi_cmd_interpreter_exec (const char *command, char **argv, int argc) { ... for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) { struct gdb_exception e = interp_exec (interp_to_use, argv[i]); if (e.reason < 0) error ("%s", e.what ()); } } Note that if those errors are reached, we lose the original exception's error code. I can't see why we'd want that. And, I can't see why we need to have interp_exec catch the exception and return it via the normal return path. That's normally needed when we need to handle propagating exceptions across C code, like across readline or ncurses, but that's not the case here. It seems to me that we can simplify things by removing some try/catch-ing and just letting exceptions propagate normally. Note, the "error in command" error shown above, which only exists in the CLI interpreter-exec command, is only ever printed AFAICS if you run "interpreter-exec console" when the top level interpreter is already the console/tui. Like: (gdb) interpreter-exec console "foobar" Undefined command: "foobar". Try "help". error in command: "foobar". You won't see it with MI's "-interpreter-exec console" from a top level MI interpreter: (gdb) -interpreter-exec console "foobar" &"Undefined command: \"foobar\". Try \"help\".\n" ^error,msg="Undefined command: \"foobar\". Try \"help\"." (gdb) nor with MI's "-interpreter-exec mi" from a top level MI interpreter: (gdb) -interpreter-exec mi "-foobar" ^error,msg="Undefined MI command: foobar",code="undefined-command" ^done (gdb) in both these cases because MI's -interpreter-exec just does: error ("%s", e.what ()); You won't see it either when running an MI command with the CLI's "interpreter-exec mi": (gdb) interpreter-exec mi "-foobar" ^error,msg="Undefined MI command: foobar",code="undefined-command" (gdb) This last case is because MI's interp::exec implementation never returns an error: gdb_exception mi_interp::exec (const char *command) { mi_execute_command_wrapper (command); return gdb_exception (); } Thus I think that "error in command" error is pretty pointless, and since it simplifies things to not have it, the patch just removes it. The patch also ends up addressing an old FIXME. Change-Id: I5a6432a80496934ac7127594c53bf5221622e393 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> Approved-By: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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void exec (const char *command) override
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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{
/* Just ignore it. */
}
ui_out *interp_ui_out () override
{
return m_ui_out.get ();
}
void pre_command_loop () override;
bool supports_new_ui () const override
{ return false; }
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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private:
std::unique_ptr<ui_out> m_ui_out;
};
/* Call function FN_NAME from module gdb.dap. */
static void
call_dap_fn (const char *fn_name)
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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{
gdbpy_enter enter_py;
gdbpy_ref<> dap_module (PyImport_ImportModule ("gdb.dap"));
if (dap_module == nullptr)
gdbpy_handle_exception ();
gdbpy_ref<> func (PyObject_GetAttrString (dap_module.get (), fn_name));
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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if (func == nullptr)
gdbpy_handle_exception ();
gdbpy_ref<> result_obj (PyObject_CallObject (func.get (), nullptr));
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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if (result_obj == nullptr)
gdbpy_handle_exception ();
}
void
dap_interp::do_init (bool top_level)
{
#if CXX_STD_THREAD
call_dap_fn ("run");
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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current_ui->input_fd = -1;
current_ui->m_input_interactive_p = false;
#else
error (_("GDB was compiled without threading, which DAP requires"));
#endif
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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}
void
dap_interp::pre_command_loop ()
{
call_dap_fn ("pre_command_loop");
}
INIT_GDB_FILE (py_interp)
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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{
/* The dap code uses module typing, available starting python 3.5. */
#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x03050000
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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interp_factory_register ("dap", [] (const char *name) -> interp *
{
return new dap_interp (name);
});
#endif
Initial implementation of Debugger Adapter Protocol The Debugger Adapter Protocol is a JSON-RPC protocol that IDEs can use to communicate with debuggers. You can find more information here: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/ Frequently this is implemented as a shim, but it seemed to me that GDB could implement it directly, via the Python API. This patch is the initial implementation. DAP is implemented as a new "interp". This is slightly weird, because it doesn't act like an ordinary interpreter -- for example it doesn't implement a command syntax, and doesn't use GDB's ordinary event loop. However, this seemed like the best approach overall. To run GDB in this mode, use: gdb -i=dap The DAP code will accept JSON-RPC messages on stdin and print responses to stdout. GDB redirects the inferior's stdout to a new pipe so that output can be encapsulated by the protocol. The Python code uses multiple threads to do its work. Separate threads are used for reading JSON from the client and for writing JSON to the client. All GDB work is done in the main thread. (The first implementation used asyncio, but this had some limitations, and so I rewrote it to use threads instead.) This is not a complete implementation of the protocol, but it does implement enough to demonstrate that the overall approach works. There is a rudimentary test suite. It uses a JSON parser written in pure Tcl. This parser is under the same license as Tcl itself, so I felt it was acceptable to simply import it into the tree. There is also a bit of documentation -- just documenting the new interpreter name.
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}