Adding support for debuggable flag to override default Bazel behavior. See bazelbuild/bazel#13801

Author: EdbertChan

rules/flags/flags.bzl

@@ -91,12 +91,7 @@ def native_bool_flag_macro(name, description):
     )
 
 def _get_bool(v):
-    v = v.lower()
-    if v == "true":
-        return True
-    if v == "false":
-        return False
-    fail("Unknown bool: " + v)
+    return utils.get_bool(v)
 
 def _bool_impl(ctx):
     if ctx.label.name in ctx.var:

rules/resources.bzl

@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ def _package(
     resource_files_zip = ctx.actions.declare_file(
         "_migrated/" + ctx.label.name + "_files/resource_files.zip",
     )
+    debug = utils.get_bool(manifest_values["debuggable"]) if "debuggable" in manifest_values else None
     _busybox.package(
         ctx,
         out_file = resource_apk,
@@ -785,7 +786,7 @@ def _package(
         aapt = aapt,
         busybox = busybox,
         host_javabase = host_javabase,
-        debug = compilation_mode != _compilation_mode.OPT,
+        debug = compilation_mode != _compilation_mode.OPT if debug == None else debug,
         should_throw_on_conflict = should_throw_on_conflict,
     )
 

rules/utils.bzl

@@ -441,6 +441,14 @@ def _get_compilation_mode(ctx):
     """
     return ctx.var["COMPILATION_MODE"]
 
+def _get_bool(v):
+    v = v.lower()
+    if v == "true":
+        return True
+    if v == "false":
+        return False
+    fail("Unknown bool: " + v)
+
 compilation_mode = struct(
     DBG = "dbg",
     FASTBUILD = "fastbuild",
@@ -466,6 +474,7 @@ utils = struct(
     list_or_depset_to_list = _list_or_depset_to_list,
     add_cls_prefix = _add_cls_prefix,
     get_cls = _get_cls,
+    get_bool = _get_bool
 )
 
 log = struct(