Find Capability in HeapViewer Views
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Description
Currently the HeapViewer views only have the Filter capability, which sometimes makes it difficult to find the desired data:
In the Objects view, I was searching for a subclass of a known base class, for which I only knew a part of its name. So I've used the Subclass Of filter and provided the known base class, which resulted in tenth of results. These had to be scanned "manually" even though I knew a part of the name, which would made it easy to find it if the Find action was available.
I suggest to provide the Find capability at least for the Objects view and for the displayed roots, eventually extending it to other views and having the possibility (option) to perform a deep (tree) search.
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Research direction
Start with the HeapViewer Objects view and displayed roots, and inspect how the existing Filter capability is provided. Done means users can use Find to locate matching data by a partial name in those views; broader view coverage and deep tree search are optional extensions mentioned by the issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- devtools, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100