feat(debugger): added support for disabling the hiding of debugger threads/tasks.

By setting the ROBOTCODE_DISABLE_HIDDEN_TASKS environment variable to a value not equal to 0, the Robot Code debugger will not be hidden from the Debugpy debugger, allowing you to debug the Robot Code debugger itself.

Author: d-biehl

packages/core/src/robotcode/core/concurrent.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import contextlib
 import inspect
+import os
 import threading
 from concurrent.futures import CancelledError, Future
 from types import TracebackType
@@ -246,8 +247,12 @@ def run_as_task(callable: Callable[_P, _TResult], *args: _P.args, **kwargs: _P.k
 def run_as_debugpy_hidden_task(callable: Callable[_P, _TResult], *args: _P.args, **kwargs: _P.kwargs) -> Task[_TResult]:
     future, thread = _create_task_in_thread(callable, *args, **kwargs)
 
-    thread.pydev_do_not_trace = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
-    thread.is_pydev_daemon_thread = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+    hidden_tasks = os.environ.get("ROBOTCODE_DISABLE_HIDDEN_TASKS", "0")
+    hide = hidden_tasks == "0"
+
+    if hide:
+        thread.pydev_do_not_trace = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        thread.is_pydev_daemon_thread = True  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
 
     thread.start()
 

packages/debugger/src/robotcode/debugger/run.py

@@ -75,8 +75,12 @@ async def _debug_adapter_server_async(
 ) -> None:
     from .server import DebugAdapterServer
 
-    current_thread = threading.current_thread
-    setattr(current_thread, "pydev_do_not_trace", True)
+    hidden_tasks = os.environ.get("ROBOTCODE_DISABLE_HIDDEN_TASKS", "0")
+    hide = hidden_tasks == "0"
+
+    if hide:
+        current_thread = threading.current_thread
+        setattr(current_thread, "pydev_do_not_trace", True)
 
     async with DebugAdapterServer(
         mode=mode,
@@ -240,6 +244,7 @@ def run_debugger(
 
             app.verbose("Start robot")
             try:
+                app.verbose(f"Create robot context with args: {args}")
                 robot_ctx = robot.make_context("robot", args, parent=ctx)
                 robot.invoke(robot_ctx)
             except SystemExit as e: