Having trouble accessing objects in Scala debugger

This is within the context of debugging a Lift application using:

  • IDEA 9.0.3
  • Scala Plugin  0.3.1814


My breakpoints work OK. However, I can't seem to evaluate any expression that is not a local variable.  For example, in one of my snippet methods I want to evaluate net.liftweb.http.S.param("foo"):

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I can see that it actually found the object method since it's showing the return type of net.liftweb.common.Box and because it's resolving the object to the Java class name net.liftweb.http.S$.  Is there something I can do differently to allow this kind of expression to be evaluated in the debugger?

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collin

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the scala compiler produces some really weird stuff. for example, some method names are p$p1$p2§p3$p4$actualMethodName, p being the packages. same for the attributes. some are simply named as you would expect them to be, some are p$p$p$p$attributename. you can find out by calling getClass().getDeclaredMethods/getDeclaredFields via debugger.

the debugger window will show the $-names as errors, but you can evaluate them. the plugin doesn't enhance the debugger yet, so it assumed everything to be plain java.

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Thanks for the reply and the information!

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you're welcome. that'll be 50$

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