I have an exception that is being thrown in Grails. Looking at the stack trace is helpful because I can see where the code bombed, but it turns out it is only bombing for one record out of hundreds, so it would be helpful to know what the values of the variables in memory are at the time of the exception. For example, in Visual Studio, when an Exception occurs, everything is paused on the line that throws the exception and all variables in memory are available to look at.
Is there anything like this for Grails (or Spring Source Tool Suite/Eclipse)? Is there a way to dump all variables to standard out? Thanks.
It sounds like you want to set an exception breakpoint, one that is triggered only when a particular type of exception is thrown.
Also, if you are using STS you can set conditional breakpoints in groovy code (and of course you can set conditional breakpoints in Java in either STS or Eclipse, but only STS allows this for Groovy).