Advanced Debugging with XCode – Extending LLDB
summary
Claim: extend the debugger so third‑party JSON tools run inside breakpoints. Uses the LLDB Python interpreter to register custom commands and type summary auto-load (via a breakpoint action that imports a ~/.lldbinit/python file), dumps NSString/Swift strings to disk, runs jq integration on them, and prints the filtered result back into the Xcode console. The result is reproducible immediately — the scripts and commands actually run and simplify inspecting fetched JSON.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:45Sample Project
- 4:09Demo 1
- 19:15Let's Recap
- 25:18Any Questions?
- 33:04Demo 2
- 42:05What have we learned?
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