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Open member using STRPCCMD
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We have a green-screen source management tool, where we can edit the sources with a PDM-like option. It would be nice it we could define an option code that opens the source for editing in vscode-ibmi. (Could also work from PDM itself.)
Describe the solution you'd like
If it was possible from a windows command line to trigger somehow the IBM i: Open File command, then it would also be possible to do this from the IBM i server via STRPCCMD, and a PDM-like option could be defined for this.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I have tried to run code -r member:/lib/file/member.ext, but it did not work.
Additional context
Maybe a small js script could also work by connecting to the running vscode instance and triggering this IBM i:Open File command. I have tried the member: scheme, because I have seen in the source code, that this was registered with vscode.workspace.registerfileSystemProvider, but unfortunately, I am not a JS developer, so I could not figure out how it works.
Hi @ngmhun Thanks for a cool idea!
Sounds very similar to an idea I had before.
Does your idea look something like this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgVTZLD3Hc&ab_channel=LiamAllan
Yes, something like that, but maybe connecting to a specific session is not necessary, with the STRPCCMD method, opening a member from any session would work.
@ngmhun Need some time to think about how this could work. Will get back to you.
Ya, this would be very cool to be able to use. For companies that already have software management and do have sources spread on so many libraries, making a "shortcut command" to be able to use directly inside an emulator to open that source (library/file) in VS Code, would be great.
I am going to work on this, but it is going to use the same method of listening to a specific interactive job. If there is only one inter job, then it will select it automatically. If there are more, the user will have to select it.
Thank you! I don't know how this communication with an interactive session works. Did you consider listening to a data queue?
@ngmhun Data queue has and will continue to be considered while I work on this feature.
This will work by the VS Code connection reading the job log and looking for specific commands that start with c4i.
I have it working using named pipe.
I can create a PR once #543 is merged.
@dferrand I've had some people we should consider looking at this API: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#window.registerUriHandler
Using this may make it easier, and should integrate nicely with STRPCCMD.
Liam
Also a nice SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55434913/4763757