Valdo extension for VS Code

[pervoj]

Are you also planning to create a Valdo extension for VS Code?

[Prince781]

I'll have to think about it.

[Prince781]

I think there was some discussion in a thread on GNOME Builder's issue page about templating too. I hope that, for now at least, a command-line interface is rather useful.

@Prince781 will you mind if I make one

[Prince781]

@abdallah-moh feel free

thanks

is there any way to enter the app name and the rest when calling the command

[Prince781]

@abdallah-moh not currently. What context do you need to use this in?

the vscode extention

the user will be required to have valdo installed

[Prince781]

the vscode extention

I mean more specifically, how to you plan to have the plugin interact with valdo? For example, are you going to rewrite the prompt in JS and intend to call valdo to instantiate the template? Walk me through your proposal.

What I will do is get all the required info from the user then use a node module to run valdo --data in here

[Prince781]

@abdallah-moh how will you determine what information you need? Don't you need to analyze the template?

Yes I will get the template type at the beginning

[Prince781]

@abdallah-moh so it looks like I'll need to make some changes to valdo for you. What do you think of this API?

% valdo eos --list-vars
{
        "PROGRAM_NAME": {
            "summary": "the name of the program",
            "default": "/${PROJECT_NAME}/\\w+/\\u\\0/(\\w)?\\W+(\\w)?(\\w*)/\\1\\u\\2\\L\\3\\E/^\\w/\\u\\0/",
            "pattern": "^[[:word:]-]+$"
        },
        "PROJECT_SUMMARY": {
            "summary": "a very short summary of the project",
            "default": "a new app for elementary OS"
        },
        "PROJECT_CATEGORIES": {
            "summary": "categories (semicolon-separated)",
            "pattern": "^((AudioVideo|Audio|Video|Development|Education|Game|Graphics|Network|Office|Science|Settings|System|Utility);)+$"
        },
        "PROJECT_KEYWORDS": {
            "summary": "keywords (semicolon-separated)",
            "default": "/${PROJECT_NAME}/\\W+/;/^;+//\\w+/\\L\\0\\E/[^;]$/\\0;/",
            "pattern": "^(\\w+;)+$"
        }
}

% valdo --list-builtin-vars
# will list all built-in variables

% valdo eos -DPROGRAM_NAME='valdo' -DPROJECT_VERSION='1.0.0' \
 -DPROJECT_SUMMARY='a templating engine for Vala' -DPROJECT_CATEGORIES='System;Utility;' \
 -DPROJECT_KEYWORDS='vala,templating' -o $DIRECTORY

Note, this is an example of how it would work with the eos template.