[che-dev] 'vscode.workspace.fs' Plug-in API is adapted to the remote plu

[Artem Zatsarynnyi <azatsary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm glad to inform you that we finished the adaptation of one more Plug-in API
to Che-Theia's remote plug-in model - it's vscode.workspace.fs Plug-in API [1], [2], [3].

If your VS Code extension is running in a sidecar and it needs accessing its resources
with vscode.workspace.fs API, now it's transparent for an extension. All the file system
requests are forwarded by Che-Theia to the corresponding sidecar. Before that enhancement,
such extensions could access the file system of the Che-Theia container only.

One of such extensions we're currently interested in - it's the Python VS Code extension
with the Jupyter Notebooks support [4]. I think there're many more such extensions that were
impossible to run in Che due to the mentioned limitations.

This great improvement is going to be released in Che 7.28.0.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#FileSystem
[2] https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/19110
[3] https://github.com/eclipse/che-theia/pull/1045
[4] https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/16818

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Artem Zatsarynnyi

Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat