Results of an expression in Debug Console are not expandable

Murz

I have a problem with non-expandable results of an expression, executed in Debug Console.
If I attach the results of the expression to a variable in the real code, it expands successfully.
But if I run the same expression in Debug Console, I see only the first level of the array or object, and on expanding items nothing appears deeper than the first level.
Here is a screenshot, demonstrating the problem:

And the same situation with any other simple multidimensional arrays and objects with subobjects.

How can I resolve this problem?

Murz

Maybe it's related to xdebug settings, related to max depth? https://xdebug.org/docs/all_settings#var_display_max_depth

In another VS Code PHP debugger vscode-php-debug this works well, also it allows to manually configure the level of deepness:
https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug#supported-launchjson-settings

xdebugSettings: Allows you to override Xdebug's remote debugging settings to fine tuning Xdebug to your needs. For example, you can play with max_children and max_depth to change the max number of array and object children that are retrieved and the max depth in structures like arrays and objects.

JakubMisek

Murz Thank you,

We're supporting all the XdebugSetting settings, so you can try something like

#...
  "XdebugSettings": {
    "max_depth": 16,
    "max_children": 32,
  }
#...

But I guess there is a bug somewhere else. We'll check it and get back to you.

MiloslavBeno

Hello,

I think I understand the issue. Actually it's not related to Xdebug settings. It's something we handle well in Visual Studio, but not in VS Code. I'm adding this to the list to support.

As a workaround for now, as you've mentioned, you can assign the expression to a variable and then expand the variable.

Thank you