Eclipse Variables View - expand all nodes? - Stackoverflow

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21260318/eclipse-variables-view-expand-all-nodes

I fought with the same problem in eclipse. Without finding a short and easy solution I decided to overwrite the toString method for all of my objects. That gaves me the possibility to get a String representation with the most important data inside the Variables tab of the debug mode without step into the complex tree structure. Of course that solution has a high effort but if it is done once the troubleshooting is much easier.

You don't have to override the toString method just for debugging purposes. You can use a Detail Formatter. Just right click on a variable and choose New Detail Formatter....

A Detail Formatter is also useful for third party libraries when you can not override the toStringmethod