I have a silly problem that getters of my properti...

# intellij

[mcpiroman]

I have a silly problem that getters of my properties (and therefore also many `toString`s) have side effects, so when IJ debugger evaluates them, superfluous side effects occur.
For now I disabled auto evaluation of `toString`s and properties, but ultimately I'd like to have them on.
So instead, is there a way to write something like this?:

var myReactiveProperty: Int
   get() {
      if (/*is-being-evaluated-by-IJ-debugger*/) {
         return field
      } else {
         fireSideEffects()
         return field
      }
   }

Although this is about my code, I think the same issue happens in Jetpack Compose when evaluating `MutableState`variables.

[Michael de Kaste]

whenever you're debugging, don't you have to manually 'call' the getter whenever you want to see whats inside them? otherwise the debugger does exactly what a normal run would do no?

[Michael de Kaste]

if that is the problem, you can do: _myReactiveProperty_field_ to check the field without doing the getter with sideeffects

[mcpiroman]

IJ debugger calls the getter automatically by default, I just disabled that.

And yes, I can instead see _`myReactiveProperty_field`. Except in my case these are delegated properties, so I need to first evaluate `myReactiveProperty$delegate`and then seek for the `value`property, which is doable, but inconvenient._

And then I also have nice `toString`s, which read the property directly (e.g. override fun toString() = "(Prop1=$myReactiveProperty, Prop2=$myReactiveProperty2)")
I'd like to see them in debugger too, but right now they trigger the side effects.