Interact with the debugger with a custom client

[mmicu]

I came across this debugger recently, but I am not able to understand how I could attach a custom client to the debugger.

I have a simple Python script a.py that I want to debug:

import debugpy

debugpy.breakpoint()

a = 1
b = 2
c = a + b
print(c)

At this point, I run the debugger:

python -m debugpy --listen --wait-for-client localhost:5678 a.py

Now, I would like to write a simple client in Python, which connects to the debugger and i) get all the defined variables, ii) continue to the next instruction and iii) repeat until there is code to run.

I couldn't find any documentation on that. Could you please guide me on how I could do this?

[rchiodo]

Transferring to Q/A. Not a bug in debugpy.

[rchiodo]

You might try this:
https://github.com/tomlin7/debug-adapter-client?form=MG0AV3

Debugpy talks the Debug Adapter Protocol (https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/specification). In order to control the debugger you have to send it messages in that protocol. \

It looks like that debug-adapter-client package implements the client side of the DAP, which is what you'd have to do.

[rchiodo]

There's also this in our wiki that explains how to talk to debugpy:
https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/wiki/DAP-Client-reference