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Breakpoint condition fails with ObjectCollectedException

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Issue type
Bug
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Tech stack
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Reproduce the conditional breakpoint in ConvertModels.java around the linked function and compare it with the Debug Console behavior. Start with SetBreakpointsRequestHandler and the JDI evaluation stack shown in the logs, including JDIThread.invokeMethod. Done means String conditions such as contains and startsWith no longer report ObjectCollectedException.

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In a function with 2nd parameter being a String name a conditional breakpoint on the first statement with name.contains("xyz") results in

Breakpoint condition 'name.contains("xyz")' error: com.sun.jdi.ObjectCollectedException occurred invoking method.

The expression does work on the same line in Debug Console.
A BP with !name.isEmpty() does work.
.startsWith("xyz") also throws.

The Java LSP logs contain:

com.microsoft.java.debug.core.adapter.handler.SetBreakpointsRequestHandler handleEvaluationResult
SEVERE: [ConditionalBreakpoint]: com.sun.jdi.ObjectCollectedException occurred invoking method.
org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException: com.sun.jdi.ObjectCollectedException occurred invoking method.
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIDebugElement.throwDebugException(JDIDebugElement.java:263)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIDebugElement.requestFailed(JDIDebugElement.java:202)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread.invokeFailed(JDIThread.java:1257)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread.invokeFailed(JDIThread.java:1226)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread.invokeMethod(JDIThread.java:1026)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIObjectValue.sendMessage(JDIObjectValue.java:162)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.eval.ast.instructions.SendMessage.execute(SendMessage.java:60)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.eval.ast.engine.Interpreter.execute(Interpreter.java:69)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.eval.ast.engine.ASTEvaluationEngine$EvalRunnable$1EvaluationRunnable.run(ASTEvaluationEngine.java:843)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread.runEvaluation(JDIThread.java:832)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.eval.ast.engine.ASTEvaluationEngine$EvalRunnable.run(ASTEvaluationEngine.java:896)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread$ThreadJob.run(JDIThread.java:3490)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)
Caused by: com.sun.jdi.ObjectCollectedException
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.MirrorImpl.defaultReplyErrorHandler(MirrorImpl.java:294)
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.ObjectReferenceImpl.referenceType(ObjectReferenceImpl.java:530)
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.ObjectReferenceImpl.type(ObjectReferenceImpl.java:547)
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.ValueImpl.checkValue(ValueImpl.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.ValueImpl.checkValues(ValueImpl.java:172)
	at org.eclipse.jdi.internal.ObjectReferenceImpl.invokeMethod(ObjectReferenceImpl.java:414)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDIThread.invokeMethod(JDIThread.java:1009)
	... 8 more

com.microsoft.java.debug.core.UsageDataSession recordResponse
WARNING: abnormal response

eclipse_adoptium-21-amd64-windows.2

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