VSCode Extension API: Cannot register custom context providers

[ajshedivy]

Before submitting your bug report

• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: macOS
- Continue version: latest pre-release (v0.9.250)
- IDE version:
- Model:
- config.json:

Description

In the latest pre-release, I am not able to register custom context providers using the Extension API. This issue does not occur in the latest release version (0.8.66), where the extension API works correctly.

Suspected Cause:
I suspect that the recent changes to the ConfigHandler (commit: 9edd5e3) might be responsible for this issue.

To reproduce

I have a vscode extension for testing the API. here are the steps to test:

1. install the test extension from vsix: https://ibm.box.com/s/i5qjumy947zevgdz0q3k2k3v0b6lnaw7
2. switch Continue to release version
3. open command pallet and activate the test suite:
   
   you should see a status message in the IDE when the extension is activated
4. Open Continue chat window and type @ and you should see 2 context providers: custom-provider-normal and custom-provider-submenu
   

This is the working case. Now switch Continue to the pre-release version and restart the extensions. Repeat the steps above. This time, the context providers are not "registered" and do not appear in the drop down.

The test extension uses the Continue Types API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@continuedev/core which was last released several months ago

Possible Solutions:

• test ConfigHandler (reloadConfig) methods used by API
• rebuild types API

Log output

No response

[sestinj]

I believe this was solved in the PR linked just above, but just wasn't closed. Going to close it now, but if I was mistaken please re-open!