Excluding folder paths from debugging

[VivPat]

PHP version: 5.6 / 7.0
XDebug version: 2.4.0
Adapter version: 1.7.1

Your launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name"             : "PHP Web Application : XDebug",
            "type"             : "php",
            "request"          : "launch",
            "port"             : 9000,
            "serverSourceRoot" : "E:\\Development\\vps\\LeCoterie\\LeCoterie-Website"
        }
    ]
}

XDebug is working, however when verifying how XDebug works within vscode-php-debug versus PHPStorm I see a difference which causes issues with Laravel.

Basically, when I debug via PHPStorm, Laravel is using a plethora of Vendor items, of which some throw exceptions which are handled within the backend of PHPStorm (Testing for RegEx, etc) and doesn't cause any issues.

When I debug via VSCode, the exceptions are caught and by doing so actually stops the application from running as expected.

I am not sure how PHPStorm does it, but would there be any way of excluding paths from debugging, or adding in Exceptions types to be excluded from debugging.

[felixfbecker]

XDebug supports "exception breakpoints". Depending on what you select in VS Code under "Breakpoints", different types of exception breakpoints are set. For example, checking "Exceptions" will add an exception breakpoint for Exception (which means everything that subclasses Exception). "Notices" will set a breakpoint for Notice. "Everything" will set a breakpoint for *, which means any error. I am not aware of a way to only break on uncaught exceptions, and I think that not breaking on any exceptions in /vendor would not be a good idea...

[VivPat]

Good day Felix,

Unfortunately I cannot afford to turn off exception breakpoints as that would stop the debugger from capturing any exceptions that I may need to throw and test.

By no means do I know how it has been done, but PHPStorm does not catch vendor exceptions but does however catch exceptions that I throw.

Currently, within VSCode if the Debugger breaks on the exceptions within /vendor then for some reason API requests from within my application do not complete.

This does not occur when using XDebug within PHPStorm.

[felixfbecker]

Could you point me to PHPStorm's documentation of that behaviour? I don't see the benefit of not stopping on exceptions in /vendor

[apit]

this is one of those Laravel code:

foreach ($request->cookies as $key => $c) {
    // ... snip
    try {
        $request->cookies->set($key, $this->decryptCookie($c));
    } catch (DecryptException $e) {
        $request->cookies->set($key, null);
    }
}

cookie that set by frontend js (so, not encrypted) will throw exception.

could Code be configured to only catch uncaught Exception, or ignored if coming from certain path (like /vendor)?