Watch pane does not use evaluateName when executing "Copy Value"

[DanTup]

I've had a bug raised where values copied (using Copy Value) from the Watch pane are truncated. I investigated, and it seems like there is a difference in behaviour between the Variables and Watch panes. I'm examining an array with a single long string in it:

In both the scopesRequest and the evaluateRequest I return a variablesReference for the array. In the variablesRequest they both return the same data, which is the following (an array of Variable):

[
	{
		"evaluateName": "longStrings[0]",
		"indexedVariables": null,
		"name": "[0]",
		"type": "String (_OneByteString)",
		"value": "\"This is a long string that is 300 characters! This is a long string that is 300 characters! This is a long string that is 300 ch…\"",
		"variablesReference": 0
	}
]

This has a truncated string for display, and an evaluateName that will give the full string. However it seems that when I choose Copy Value from the Variables window the expression gets evaluated, but choosing Copy Value from the Watch window just copies the truncated value into the clipboard.

(@isidorn does this seem like a bug, or are they intended to work differently?)

[isidorn]

You are right, this is an issue and I can push a fix for it by passing variable instead of variable.value here

However this seems to uncover another bug from node-debug. Which is that the evaluateName for variables in watch window are bogus. @weinand @roblourens can you please investigate? Or if you prefer i can push a fix for this issue which will uncover the other issue

[roblourens]

I pushed a fix for the evaluateName issue.

[isidorn]

@roblourens great than I will push a fix for this!