Add "run as sudo" to launch.json for VSC Java project

[FDelporte]

I'm working on the Pi4J project (https://v2.pi4j.com/) to control GPIOs with a Java application. Pi4J uses a native library to communicate with the GPIOs. For some protocols (like I2C) the library needs to be called with "sudo". I know this is a bad idea and should be avoided, and we are looking for an alternative solution, but in the mean-time I found out you can't run or debug a Java application in VSC as sudo.

You could launch VSC itself as sudo, but this gives the following warning, so that's probably even a worse idea ;-)

$ sudo code
You are trying to start Visual Studio Code as a super user which isn't recommended. If this was intended, please specify an alternate user data directory using the `--user-data-dir` argument.

Environment

• Operating System: Raspberry Pi OS (Linux, Debian)
• JDK version: OpenJDK 11.0.9.1
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.53.2
• Java extension version: Java Extension Pack 0.12.1
• Java Debugger extension version: 0.31.0

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a launch.json file, e.g.

   {
   "version": "0.2.0",
   "configurations": [
       {
           "type": "java",
           "name": "Launch CrowPiApp",
           "request": "launch",
           "mainClass": "com.pi4j.example/com.pi4j.example.CrowPiApp",
           "projectName": "pi4j-example-crowpi",
           "args": "-a -p"
       }
   ]
   }

2. It should be possible to add extra setting "sudo": true

Current Result

sudo setting not available

Expected Result

sudo true/false can be defined

Additional Informations

The example project is https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j-example-crowpi

[theremoon-j]

three years past, is it available?