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Visual Studio Code Remote Development: Open any folder in WSL, in a Docker container, or on a remote machine using SSH and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.
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Expose VSCode Remote API #10400

Open robertripoll opened 1 month ago

robertripoll commented 1 month ago

Type: Feature Request

I am developing a VSCode extension that loads passwords from an external service. I would like to use these passwords whenever the VSCode Remote extension prompts for a password, and therefore autofill it for the user. It would be useful if the VSCode Remote extension’s API were made available to other extensions, allowing them to access and use passwords in a similar way.

joshspicer commented 2 weeks ago

Remote extensions do not store your password. Do you have a more specific example from one of the remote extensions? If so, perhaps I can provide a more specific pointer From what I understand here, you should have all the tools you need to build your extension!

robertripoll commented 2 weeks ago

I didn't explain myself properly. Let me give it another try :)

I'm currently building a VSCode extension to autofill KeePass passwords within the IDE on behalf of the user. I found a case when the VSCode Remote SSH extension could prompt the user for an SSH password when logging into a remote server or computer. I thought about triggering this connection manually from within my extension (for example, calling an API) so that I would also be able to autofill the SSH password automatically. Would it require VSCode Remote Extension to expose its API to other extensions (such as mine)? Or is there another better way to do this?

Thanks!