Sessions not loading for VSCode Server

[AustinSaintAubin]

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: [linuxserver/code-server](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server) (docker)
  - code-server: v4.17.1
  - Code: 1.82.2
  - Commit: 2eba7af117ea58d45a6c6449ee4fe63c8d4d53aa
  - Date: 2023-09-29T21:59:34.461Z (2 wks ago)
  - Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
- Continue: v0.0.412

Description

Continue sessions load from users desktop, not from VSCode Server.

To reproduce

1. Load instance of linuxserver/code-server
2. create a few sessions in continue (in vscode server).
3. unable to view seasons in the continue extension.
4. can view season data in raw format in docker container/config/.continue/sessions

Also tested.

1. Load instance of VSCode desktop for MacOS.
2. create a few sessions in continue (desktop).
3. View sessions in the VSCode desktop instance, AND will also see same sessons in the VSCode Server instance (seems to be loading the desktop sessions into vscode.
4. Can view sessions in

Log output

[2023-10-16 23:29:32,408] [DEBUG] ------ Begin Logs ------
[2023-10-16 23:29:33,762] [DEBUG] Starting MeiliSearch...
[2023-10-16 23:29:33,764] [DEBUG] Meilisearch started
[2023-10-16 23:29:34,721] [DEBUG] Health check
[2023-10-16 23:29:34,898] [DEBUG] Accepted websocket connection from Address(host='127.0.0.1', port=55400)
[2023-10-16 23:29:34,974] [DEBUG] Received message while initializing workspaceDirectory
[2023-10-16 23:29:34,997] [DEBUG] Received message while initializing uniqueId
[2023-10-16 23:29:35,883] [DEBUG] New session: None
[2023-10-16 23:29:35,939] [DEBUG] ------ Begin Logs ------
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,292] [DEBUG] Loaded Continue config file from /config/.continue/config.py
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,407] [DEBUG] Starting context manager
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,408] [WARNING] Failed to load saved_context_groups.json: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Reverting to empty list.
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,483] [DEBUG] Sending session id: f494b6c0-8e74-4c01-8338-06055d670f11
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,490] [DEBUG] Loading Meilisearch index...
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,604] [DEBUG] Error loading meilisearch index: 'list' object has no attribute 'items'
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,605] [WARNING] Failed to kill process on port 7700 (access denied)
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,605] [DEBUG] Using MeiliSearch at URL: http://localhost:7700
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,746] [DEBUG] Loaded 0 documents into meilisearch in 0.004920005798339844 seconds for context provider code
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,761] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.020546436309814453 seconds for context provider diff
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,774] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.03310203552246094 seconds for context provider url
[2023-10-16 23:29:36,781] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.039518117904663086 seconds for context provider terminal
[2023-10-16 23:29:37,101] [DEBUG] Received websocket connection at url: ws://localhost:65432/gui/ws?session_id=f494b6c0-8e74-4c01-8338-06055d670f11
[2023-10-16 23:29:37,101] [DEBUG] Session started
[2023-10-16 23:29:37,102] [DEBUG] Registered websocket for session f494b6c0-8e74-4c01-8338-06055d670f11
[2023-10-16 23:29:56,741] [DEBUG] Error loading meilisearch index: 
[2023-10-16 23:29:56,741] [DEBUG] Loaded Meilisearch index
[2023-10-16 23:30:25,180] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"main_input","data":{"input":"what is your name?"}}
[2023-10-16 23:30:31,918] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"main_input","data":{"input":"what is your model size?"}}
[2023-10-16 23:30:38,710] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"main_input","data":{"input":"how ol are you?"}}
[2023-10-16 23:30:41,339] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"load_session","data":{}}
[2023-10-16 23:30:41,438] [DEBUG] New session: None
[2023-10-16 23:30:41,446] [DEBUG] Loaded Continue config file from /config/.continue/config.py
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,034] [DEBUG] Starting context manager
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,039] [WARNING] Failed to load saved_context_groups.json: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Reverting to empty list.
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,143] [DEBUG] Received websocket connection at url: ws://localhost:65432/gui/ws?session_id=e0de2f0b-a434-48a2-93bf-653a10de85b1
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,143] [DEBUG] Session started
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,144] [DEBUG] Registered websocket for session e0de2f0b-a434-48a2-93bf-653a10de85b1
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,149] [DEBUG] GUI websocket disconnected
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,149] [DEBUG] Closing gui websocket
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,165] [DEBUG] Removing session: f494b6c0-8e74-4c01-8338-06055d670f11
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,171] [DEBUG] Loading Meilisearch index...
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,235] [DEBUG] Error loading meilisearch index: 'list' object has no attribute 'items'
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,236] [WARNING] Failed to kill process on port 7700 (access denied)
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,236] [DEBUG] Using MeiliSearch at URL: http://localhost:7700
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,372] [DEBUG] Loaded 0 documents into meilisearch in 0.0033326148986816406 seconds for context provider code
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,700] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.3308849334716797 seconds for context provider diff
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,718] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.34922289848327637 seconds for context provider terminal
[2023-10-16 23:30:45,733] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.3641846179962158 seconds for context provider url
[2023-10-16 23:30:48,204] [DEBUG] Loaded 1000 documents into meilisearch in 2.83486270904541 seconds for context provider file
[2023-10-16 23:30:48,206] [DEBUG] Loaded Meilisearch index
[2023-10-16 23:30:52,468] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"main_input","data":{"input":"What is the capictal of Oklahoma?"}}
[2023-10-16 23:31:01,321] [DEBUG] Received GUI message {"messageType":"load_session","data":{}}
[2023-10-16 23:31:01,406] [DEBUG] New session: None
[2023-10-16 23:31:01,415] [DEBUG] Loaded Continue config file from /config/.continue/config.py
[2023-10-16 23:31:04,998] [DEBUG] Starting context manager
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,003] [WARNING] Failed to load saved_context_groups.json: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). Reverting to empty list.
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,126] [DEBUG] Received websocket connection at url: ws://localhost:65432/gui/ws?session_id=02a5f894-ad08-4155-a200-80eeb0b1592a
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,126] [DEBUG] Session started
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,126] [DEBUG] Registered websocket for session 02a5f894-ad08-4155-a200-80eeb0b1592a
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,132] [DEBUG] GUI websocket disconnected
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,133] [DEBUG] Closing gui websocket
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,146] [DEBUG] Removing session: e0de2f0b-a434-48a2-93bf-653a10de85b1
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,151] [DEBUG] Loading Meilisearch index...
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,283] [DEBUG] Error loading meilisearch index: 'list' object has no attribute 'items'
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,284] [WARNING] Failed to kill process on port 7700 (access denied)
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,285] [DEBUG] Using MeiliSearch at URL: http://localhost:7700
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,467] [DEBUG] Loaded 0 documents into meilisearch in 0.009461164474487305 seconds for context provider code
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,481] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.023588895797729492 seconds for context provider diff
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,503] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.04533982276916504 seconds for context provider url
[2023-10-16 23:31:05,511] [DEBUG] Loaded 1 documents into meilisearch in 0.05336189270019531 seconds for context provider terminal

[sestinj]

@AustinSaintAubin when you say sessions, this means the history page that you get by clicking the folder icon, like this?:

The server will look for sessions on the same computer as it is running - is your Continue server running on the remote machine, or on the Desktop?

[AustinSaintAubin]

@sestinj, yes i am referring to the history page, as you have depicted.
I running VSCode Server remotely, using linuxserver/code-server instance in a docker container.

The expected behavior I think would be for the session data to be stored on the host (server) running the vscode instance.
It seems Continue is storing the session information on the server when Continue is run on the VSCode Server, but the UI of the Continue extension seems to be just pulling from the client / user.

[sestinj]

@AustinSaintAubin ok I believe I see what is happening. VS Code automatically handles port forwarding to ports opened on the VS Code remote server, so we go through this for websockets, and whatever you've setup as the serverUrl would then be called directly for the /sessions endpoint (the only place we do this), which means it would be trying to call some localhost that doesn't exist

To be sure, what is the value of the continue.serverUrl field in VS Code settings? Assuming this is some localhost url, probably 65432 if you haven't changed it, then I know what we need to fix

[AustinSaintAubin]

@sestinj the settings for my instance of VSCode Server.
continue.serverUrl = http://localhost:65432

[sestinj]

@AustinSaintAubin Great! Thanks for the confirmation.

I'll update here once I make the fix

[pangliye]

how about the bug?

[sestinj]

@AustinSaintAubin @pangliye This has now been solved as a byproduct of our move away from the Python server. If you download the extension on your Desktop it will store sessions there, and if you download the extension in the remote server, then they will be stored there, so you have a choice