I noticed that when I hover my mouse over a local variable when my debugger is stopped inside a lambda it will report Cannot find local variable 'variable_name' even if it's visible inside the lambda and it's used.
Example code
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String a = "hello_world";
m1(a);
}
private static void m1(String a) {
AccessController.doPrivileged((PrivilegedAction<String>) () -> {
System.out.println("blala " + a);
return "abc";
});
}
}
Try with a breakpoint in System.out.println("blala " + a); and after return "abc" and it always report the same error.
I used AccessController.doPrivileged because it's what I used in my original code and of course i'm using Java 8.
It says the same thing in Watchers and Evaluate Expression.
I tried using the "anonymous class" version and the debugger sees the value of a correctly
private static void m1(String a) {
AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction<String>() {
@Override
public String run() {
System.out.println("blala " + a);
return "abc";
}
});
}
I'm missing something about lambda expressions or it's an IntellIJ IDEA 14 bug?
I don't want to report the bug right now because I already reported a bug that was caused by my code instead of IntellIJ IDEA, so I want to be sure before do something (and because I don't use Java 8 so often, so I could be wrong).