Vscode: Debug Console NEEDS a filter

[JCKodel]

Issue Type: Feature Request

There is a lot of extensions that overwhelm the debug console (including C# and Flutter extensions). The Flutter extension team blames VSCode for not having the proper API's to allow filtering.

On Flutter it's even a bit more complicated, because the guy who build the extension is not the same guy who build the Flutter plugin that is not the same guy who wrote the original native plugin that is spamming the debug console.

So, WE NEEED A FILTER ON VSCODE (a simple "contains" and "starts with") will do. It is not that hard to implement =(

VS Code version: Code 1.43.2 (0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50, 2020-03-24T07:38:38.248Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

[weinand]

@isidorn the new tree supports filtering and the LoadedScripts view even uses it to search in "invisible" parts of the tree. Could we not just enable the filter UI?

Is this a dup of #20838?

[isidorn]

Yeah the filtering is enabled in the debug console. Users can trigger it via cmd/ctrl + F.
Yeah it is a duplicate but this user is very persistant and keeps on reopening issues I close as duplictes. Thus I decided to leave this one open.

[weinand]

@JCKodel have you tried to use the existing filter functionality of the debug console?

[JCKodel]

Yeah the filtering is enabled in the debug console. Users can trigger it via cmd/ctrl + F.
Yeah it is a duplicate but this user is very persistant and keeps on reopening issues I close as duplictes. Thus I decided to leave this one open.

This user is very persistent because people like you don't realize that FIND is not the same as FILTER.

FIND is when you want to ONLY include the searched term.

FILTER is when you want to EXCLUDE the filtered term.

The problem is the spam nature of this dialog. I want to be able to FILTER OUT some specific lines, but see anything else (even those lines I don't EVEN REALIZE THEY EXIST YET, such as error messages)

Instead of saying "ThE uSeR iS vErY pErSistAnt", try to least understand the issue at hand. THAT'S WHAT LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS IS LIKE.

So, feel free to close this shit. Microsoft never heard user's opinion before, it was my mistake to let me believe you could have changed.

[JCKodel]

I case you still don't understand, here's a drawing for you.

THIS IS WHAT FILTER IS LIKE.

(filter all messages except those which contains I/ or E/ (in a logcat, these are Info and Error). I'm filtering out the D/ messages (the spammy debug messages). Could use the ^ RegEx negation of any kind of complex filtering.)

[jerryzhoujw]

Android video have a lot of video related log. which is not easy to hide in console by just use FIND

I think this is a reasonably request which help developers filter logs when they can't do more config on logs from some libs.

Reference

1. Related to dart issue #1980
2. Similar issue when I debug video player on android device. Check this on StackOverflow
3. How log cat do filter

[Elias-Graf]

Do we have access to the input/output/buffer of the debug console via extensions? If yes, I'm really surprised such an extension doesn't exist yet (or I haven't found it).

To give you an example my application has different services and each one has its "log tag". If I'm debugging a certain service, I don't want to be spammed by any other logs.

Here is a real world example:

[request] <Done in 187ms> fetching "https://example.com"
<WARNING> [test] cannot fill cache which was already filled
[request] <Done in 152ms> fetching "https://example.com"
[ViewFilterService] Resolved 1 waiting listener

I'd like to filter only "test" using something like /\[test\]/gm.

Of course, this is simplified quite a bit, because here it would be easier to filter with your brain :D

Edit: Interestingly enough, the feature I'm looking for is available inside the "Problems" tab.

[arhelmus]

Its actually really hard to get use of debug console in real world application which has lots of processes in. Basically, I have a wall of logs which produces faster than I can read and there is no reliable way for me to configure what I wanna see, searching is nice but it didn't really helps much as: I want to see only what I need, not search for what I need in tons of text

[isidorn]

Dup of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20838