0000741: Unable to rich more value children level than 'max_depth' when obtain value from 'eval' command

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0000741	Xdebug	Uncategorized	public	2011-10-24 23:00	2014-02-27 20:10

Reporter	nnmatveev	Assigned To
Priority	high	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	won't fix

Summary	0000741: Unable to rich more value children level than 'max_depth' when obtain value from 'eval' command
Description	The issue appears if you use 'evaluate expression' feature in the IDE and need to open more children levels than configured in 'max_depth'. We use the minimum possible 'max_depth' value as it speed ups stepping (we reload stack frames data on every step using 'context_get' command). The only way - re-evaluate the whole expression. We need to have some kind of global cache of all evaluated values and clean it after each step.
Steps To Reproduce	Consider the following script: <?php function foo(){ return array(array(array(array(array(array(array(array(1)))))))); } echo 1; //breakpoint Eval 'foo()' expression when you will reach a breakpoint.
Additional Information	In PhpStorm we implemented a workaround for this problem and maintains our own evaluation cache in global variable $GLOBALS['IDE_EVAL_CACHE']. See attached xdebug log for more details. We assign an unique array key for every evaluated expression. When user ask for more children level we actually invoke property_get command for the expression substitutor.
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Operating System
PHP Version	5.3.8

derick 2014-02-27 20:10 administrator ~0002726	The eval'ed return only exists for a brief moment, and I will not keep the result around with some special hack so that you can request sub-properties. Eval is not made for requesting random properties as I have explained many times.