ADT (Eclipse) ABAP breadcrumb gets lost sometimes

[Sandra_Rossi]

Today, my Eclipse ADT (2024-06) was showing a wrong breadcrumb (*) for ABAP code.

My problem, instead of displaying while > case > when > if as below

it started to display nothing, or displayed "case > when > if" but not "while", etc.

I installed Eclipse/ADT 2024-12, and I don't see the problem anymore.

How to solve with 2024-06?

Eclipse: 2024-06 (corresponding ADT version)

Backend version: 7.58

NB: for information, to toggle the breadcrumb off/on, select the breadcrumb icon from the tool bar or Alt+Shift+B (Getting Orientation in the Source Code Using Breadcrumbs | SAP Help Portal😞

[Sandra_Rossi · Accepted solution]

I solved by closing the ABAP source code and reopening it (no need to restart Eclipse). I guess that when opening the source code, ADT starts the ABAP parsing from scratch to build the breadcrumb, while there's a buggy optimization if you change the same ABAP source code again and again without closing.

NB:

• The actual bug was in the "Local types" tab of a class pool, so maybe switching between tabs of the same class pool could also solve the issue?
• I saw the ADT bug in Eclipse 2024-06, but I feel it still exists in more recent versions. I have just installed 2024-12, so I will update the answer in a few weeks (or if I see the bug again).