Copy Value in Watch panel copies truncated value with ... for a long/big string.

[HamedFathi]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: No

• VS Code Version: 1.75.1
• OS Version: Windows

Steps to Reproduce:

1. You need to try with a long/big string value and put it inside the Watch panel for debugging.
2. Try to use Copy Value and pasted it into the Notepad for example.
3. You have no access to real value like UI (tooltips/popups) you will get truncated value with ... in middle!

In UI make sense to me to have truncated value for long/big string

But, why I should not have access to the real value by Copy Value in the Watch panel?

For a while, I was looking for why when I am pasting the value in jwt.io the signature and data there were invalid!!!

[vscodenpa]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.75.1. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[roblourens]

I don't remember whether js-debug is expected to return the full value for the clipboard context?

[HamedFathi]

Then how should I have access to the real value of my variable? popup truncated, copy value inside debugger (watch panel) truncated.

Why should not have expect to access to the real value of the variable from debugger and watch panel? So what is the purpose of having watch panel then?

Truncating values for UI make sense but not everywhere!

At least console.log works!

[connor4312]

This should definitely work, and does for me. Could you grab some logs so I can see what's going on on your end?

/jsDebugLogs

[vscodenpa]

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[HamedFathi]

This should definitely work, and does for me. Could you grab some logs so I can see what's going on on your end?

/jsDebugLogs

@connor4312

I am using playwright vscode to call the debugger so I do not have a launch.json in my project to enable the trace mode.

Is it possible to enable the trace globally to help you with more info?

I know does not help you but I just shared a gif to show how happened.
the value is a bearer token that came from Azure which is complete and correct in console.log but truncated with ... as you can see.

[connor4312]

No worries, thanks for the gif. I was able to reproduce.