On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:58:54 GMT, Alex Menkov <amen...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> com.sun.jdi.ObjectReference::setValue spec says that final static fields > cannot be modified, but openjdk implementation throws > IllegalArgumentException for any final fields (static or instance). > > The fix updates the spec to prohibit any final field modification > CSR: JDK-8281652 I decided to check if VS Code shows the warning as Eclipse does, so I installed VS Code and tried to set final fields in debugger. For both static and instance fields I got: Failed to set variable. Reason: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: SetVariableRequest: Final field value cannot be changed. So VS Code DOES NOT allow to set static final fields. As far as I got VS Code uses Eclipse JDT only for editor (code navigation, auto completion, refactoring, etc), but debugging is implemented by another extension: Debugger for Java (https://github.com/Microsoft/java-debug). I.e. VS Code does not use Eclipse JDI implementation. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11279
