Support tab-completion for targets in external workspaces

[cgruber]

While click-through navigation now works for generated and downloaded workspaces, I'm not seeing syntax completion on targets not in //

e.g. using github.com/square/bazel_maven_repository, one can set up a generated workspace representing maven artifacts, and use a dependency like @maven//com/google/guava:guava. As of today, from a head-build, at least, I can click-through that target and end up in my generated BUILD.bazel file. All well and good.

But, when wanting to use it, I can't type @maven//com/google/gu and then hit tab, and have it offer me suggestions as it will for //blah/foo/ba+tab.

[arjantop]

Are there any plans to add this? Quite a usability downgrade when using bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external (compared to bazel-deps).

[jin]

I'll take a look at this.

[arjantop]

@jin Great, thanks!

[lukaciko]

@jin @mai93 any updates on this? I see there was a draft branch a long time ago and that the issue has been tagged with topic: external dependencies.

[Bencodes]

Has any progress been made on this one? We also heavily use rules_jvm_external and having auto-complete support for this would be a huge quality-of-life improvement for our users.

[Bencodes]

@sgowroji this is another low hanging bug that impacts most Java/Android teams. Could you help triage this one as well?

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[Bencodes]

Not being able to auto complete external dependencies is still an issue that exists in the Intellij plugin. Would be great to see a fix for this.

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[tpasternak]

Probably will be fixed in #6664

[mtoader]

Yea. Working on adding this :) @tpasternak is it possible that I get assigned to this ?

[tpasternak]

Sure! I can even mark as P1!