Cannot restart test debugger (i.e. shift-cmd-F5) with "purpose"==["debug-test"]

[tclose]

Sorry, not sure whether this is a bug report or feature request

Environment data

• debugpy version: 1.4.3
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): Python 3.9.5 (default, May 4 2021, 03:33:11)
  [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin, built by Homebrew

Version: 1.60.2
Commit: 7f6ab5485bbc008386c4386d08766667e155244e
Date: 2021-09-22T11:59:27.195Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 13.1.8
Chrome: 91.0.4472.164
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 19.6.0

Actual behavior

When debugging a pytest unit test in the test explorer with the following launch configuration

        {
            "name": "Test Config",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "purpose": ["debug-test"],
            "justMyCode": true,
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "env": {
                "_PYTEST_RAISE": "1"
            },
        }

I am not able to restart the debugger using the debug controls (e.g. shift-cmd-F5) and receive the following message

This configuration can only be used as defined by `purpose`

Expected behavior

The debugging session is refreshed and the test run again

Steps to reproduce:

1. Debug a unit test from test explorer
2. Break at a breakpoint
3. Click the "restart" button or press shift-cmd-F5

[int19h]

"purpose" is something that's handled entirely by the VSCode Python extension, including the validation logic that gets tripped here; moving the issue accordingly.

[karthiknadig]

@tclose "purpose": ["debug-test"] only works with the test explorer or with the debug command pallet commands.. You cannot use that with F5, if you want to say run pytest test using F5 you will have to create a module debug configuration and set it up to run using pytest and the required args.

I will leave this item open to clarify that bit in the description for "debug-test"

[int19h]

I think the scenario here is that the session is started via the Test Explorer, but then restarted (while it's still running) via Run -> Restart Debugging.

[tclose]

@karthiknadig thanks for the response but I am referring to the case that @int19h suggested.

With the old test explorer plugin I was using and the deprecated "request": "test" launch configuration it was possible to restart a running test (i.e. using the green "recycle" arrow in the debugging controls)

[karthiknadig]

I see. Thanks for clarifying.

[MrNeocore]

Has anyone found a way to make this work again ?

[karthiknadig]

Fixed via #18290

[rchiodo]

/verified

Works for me as long as I don't have a launch.json with a test config in it. Although maybe I just setup the test config incorrectly.