Protocol extension points

[EvilBeaver]

Language server protocol has extension points where authors can append their own language features over default protocol. Can we have this in DAP?

For example, in IntelliJ IDEA there's breakpoints feature "Stop only after another breakpoint hits". I could implement specific UI as IDE extension which sets up this feature and use DAP extension to pass data from IDE to runtime.

[connor4312]

For example, in IntelliJ IDEA there's breakpoints feature "Stop only after another breakpoint hits".

This is not something that needs to be expressed in DAP. In fact there is a PR for just that in VS Code that doesn't require any DAP extensions.

Currently I have little appetite for an arbitrary 'extension mechanism'. Of course, as it's JSON, clients and adapters are free to implement their own additional properties, and we did a little bit of that to make VS Code extension debugging work in the days before there were the necessary DAP semantics.

If there are specific things you see are missing in DAP, by all means please create issues! 🙂

[EvilBeaver]

Thanks for the answer

[connor4312]

Please feel free to comment/open a new issue if you want to discuss further