Breakpoint at “throw new SilentExitException()” in Eclipse + Spring Boot

Question

Every time I run my Spring Boot project on debug mode in Eclipse IDE (Spring Tool Suite), the thread stops at throw new SilentExitException(); line even without a b

Answer 1

My workaround:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    } catch (Throwable e) {
        if(e.getClass().getName().contains("SilentExitException")) {
            LOGGER.debug("Spring is restarting the main thread - See spring-boot-devtools");
        } else {
            LOGGER.error("Application crashed!", e);
        }
    }
}

It doesn't matter that we ignore the SilentExitException because the devtools are just restarting the instance with a SilentExitException which isn't very silent. This try block will silence it...

I had to use text matching on the class as the SilentExitException is private in SilentExitExceptionHandler.

It doesn't solve your problem with the breakpoint...