Attaching a debugger using a custom run configuration

Hi, try using "Before launch" action in the configuration, this way you can for example run any other configuration before launch

Hi Egor, could you tell me how I can do this programatically?

I'm not sure public API is available for that, try having a look at com.intellij.execution.BeforeRunTask

Check com.intellij.debugger.impl.GenericDebuggerRunner.

U need override two methods

public boolean canRun(@NotNull String executorId, @NotNull RunProfile profile)

- check for yr configuration instance

and


protected RunContentDescriptor createContentDescriptor(Project project, RunProfileState state, RunContentDescriptor contentToReuse, ExecutionEnvironment env) throws ExecutionException


attaching debugger to vm, with method attachVirtualMachine

Thanks for the reply Valeriy, But that would mean I'm just attaching the debugger to a port without launching the java process. But I want to launch a java process before that and redirect the ouput to the intellij console view.

public class MyTestRunner extends GenericDebuggerRunner {
    @NotNull
    public String getRunnerId() {
        return "MyApplicationRunner";
    }

    public boolean canRun(@NotNull String executorId, @NotNull RunProfile profile) {
        return profile instanceof MyRunConfiguration;
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    protected RunContentDescriptor createContentDescriptor(Project project, RunProfileState runProfileState, RunContentDescriptor runContentDescriptor, ExecutionEnvironment executionEnvironment) throws ExecutionException {
        RemoteConnection connection = new RemoteConnection(true, "127.0.0.1", "50005", true);
        return attachVirtualMachine(project, runProfileState, runContentDescriptor, executionEnvironment, connection, true);
    }

I previously overriden the doExecute to execute my commandLineState and redirect the output to console.

    protected RunContentDescriptor doExecute(Project project, RunProfileState state, RunContentDescriptor contentToReuse, ExecutionEnvironment env) throws ExecutionException {
        FileDocumentManager.getInstance().saveAllDocuments();

        ExecutionResult executionResult = state.execute(env.getExecutor(), this);
        if (executionResult == null) {
            return null;
        }

        final RunContentBuilder contentBuilder = new RunContentBuilder(this, executionResult, env);
        contentBuilder.setEnvironment(env);
        return contentBuilder.showRunContent(contentToReuse);
    }

This is how I was invoking the java process and now I can't do this since createContentDescriptor() returns RunContentDescriptor from the GenericDebuggerRunner's doExecute().


I bascially have to chain two run configurations. But not able to figure out how

In RunConfiguration u need implement method

com.intellij.execution.configurations.RunProfile#getState

and return for example com.intellij.execution.configurations.CommandLineState

I have overriden my getState in the Runconfiguration to return a new CommandLineState which returns a ColoredProcessHandler.
I think I didn't quite clearly explain my situation.

When I press the debug button, MyTestRunner get's invoked
I now have to launch a java process with redirected output to intellij console, which I have done by overriding doExecute
but I also want to attach a debugger just after launching the java process.

So basically I want to do two things, one that runs the command line and one that attaches debugger to vm