Is there any way to force return true here in a debugger?

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[Danny Zhang]

Is there any way to force return true here in a debugger?

[Big Chungus]

fun hello() {
  var result = false
  return result //<-- breakpoint here and then change `result` value before releasing
}

[Danny Zhang]

Thanks @Big Chungus. But the code I’m debugging is from an AAR library. I can’t modify the code.

[Big Chungus]

Ah, then you cannot change hard-coded return. You might be able to change it upstream after it returns if it's saved in variable

[Danny Zhang]

Got it.

[Roukanken]

If you don't really care about what's in the method, or call it only a few times
you can manually return from function. I haven't tried it myself yet, but here:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/altering-the-program-s-execution-flow.html#force_return

[Roukanken]

so you can breakpoint in the function, and then manually return true

[Danny Zhang]

Cool, Thanks @Roukanken, I think that’s what I want.