Navigating to ide link provided by workspace API does not open Theia IDE in Che 7

[ibuziuk]

Once workspace is created a few links are exposed via workspace API e.g.

   "links":{  
      "self":"https://che.openshift.io/api/workspace/workspacet0gu6w16w0ldx1zd",
      "ide":"https://che.openshift.io/ibuziuk@redhat.com/wksp-d0fg",
      "environment/statusChannel":"wss://che.openshift.io/api/websocket",
      "environment/outputChannel":"wss://che.openshift.io/api/websocket"
   }

However, for workspaces created based on che7 stacks, navigating to ide link does not open Theia IDE:

NOTE: navigating to workspace via UD e.g. https://che.openshift.io/dashboard/#/ide/ibuziuk@redhat.com/wksp-d0fg works just fine since the url is edirect to workspace-loader app and it decides which IDE to load in this method https://github.com/eclipse/che/blob/master/workspace-loader/src/index.ts#L348

Currently, this issue prevents che-starter to support che7 for openshift.io flow since workspace startup fall back on ide link provided by workspace API.

More details can be found in redhat-developer/che-starter#323 (comment)

[skabashnyuk]

Talked with @vparfonov today about this issue. I think it is related to the way how we handle http://host/namespace/workspacename links in https://github.com/eclipse/che/search?q=IDEController&unscoped_q=IDEController

[ibuziuk]

@vparfonov hi, could you please clarify if the issue planned to be fixed in 6.18.0 ?

[vparfonov]

@ibuziuk Hi, yes work on it. Will be done on this week

[ibuziuk]

@vparfonov not sure I'm doing everything correct, but I can not find ide link in the GET /workspace for che 7 workspace:

[
  {
    "namespace": "che",
    "links": {},
    "config": {
      "defaultEnv": "default",
      "environments": {
        "default": {
          "recipe": {
            "contentType": "application/x-yaml",
            "type": "kubernetes",
            "content": "kind: List\nitems:\n - \n  apiVersion: v1\n  kind: Pod\n  metadata:\n   name: ws\n  spec:\n   containers:\n    - \n     image: 'eclipse/che-dev:nightly'\n     name: dev\n     resources:\n      limits:\n       memory: 512Mi\n"
          },
          "machines": {
            "ws/dev": {
              "volumes": {
                "projects": {
                  "path": "/projects"
                }
              },
              "installers": [],
              "env": {},
              "servers": {},
              "attributes": {
                "memoryLimitBytes": "536870912"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "projects": [
        {
          "description": "A hello world Java application.",
          "source": {
            "location": "https://github.com/che-samples/console-java-simple.git",
            "type": "git",
            "parameters": {}
          },
          "links": [],
          "problems": [],
          "mixins": [],
          "name": "console-java-simple",
          "type": "maven",
          "path": "/console-java-simple",
          "attributes": {
            "language": [
              "java"
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "commands": [
        {
          "commandLine": "mvn -f ${current.project.path} clean install",
          "name": "console-java-simple:build",
          "type": "mvn",
          "attributes": {
            "goal": "Build",
            "previewUrl": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "commandLine": "mvn -f ${current.project.path} clean install \njava -jar ${current.project.path}/target/*.jar",
          "name": "console-java-simple:run",
          "type": "mvn",
          "attributes": {
            "goal": "Run",
            "previewUrl": ""
          }
        }
      ],
      "name": "wksp-tecj",
      "attributes": {
        "editor": "org.eclipse.che.editor.theia:1.0.0",
        "plugins": "che-machine-exec-plugin:0.0.1"
      },
      "links": []
    },
    "status": "STOPPED",
    "temporary": false,
    "id": "workspacekiflnbnct799hr1x",
    "attributes": {
      "org.eclipse.che.runtimes_id": "runtimesoz72dz3yks5wkvai",
      "stopped": "1549627921147",
      "created": "1549625018493",
      "stoppedAbnormally": "false",
      "stackId": "che7-preview",
      "updated": "1549625201096"
    }
  }
]

[benoitf]

@ibuziuk and on a RUNNING workspace ?

[ibuziuk]

@benoitf could you please clarify why should it matter? I would expect that links would be available regardless of the workspace state (otherwise it will not work for openshift.io flow)

[ibuziuk]

links for running che 7 workspace seems to be also missing:

[
  {
    "namespace": "che",
    "links": {},
    "config": {
      "defaultEnv": "default",
      "environments": {
        "default": {
          "recipe": {
            "contentType": "application/x-yaml",
            "type": "kubernetes",
            "content": "kind: List\nitems:\n - \n  apiVersion: v1\n  kind: Pod\n  metadata:\n   name: ws\n  spec:\n   containers:\n    - \n     image: 'eclipse/che-dev:nightly'\n     name: dev\n     resources:\n      limits:\n       memory: 512Mi\n"
          },
          "machines": {
            "ws/dev": {
              "volumes": {
                "projects": {
                  "path": "/projects"
                }
              },
              "installers": [],
              "env": {},
              "servers": {},
              "attributes": {
                "memoryLimitBytes": "536870912"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "projects": [
        {
          "description": "A hello world Java application.",
          "source": {
            "location": "https://github.com/che-samples/console-java-simple.git",
            "type": "git",
            "parameters": {}
          },
          "links": [],
          "problems": [],
          "mixins": [],
          "name": "console-java-simple",
          "type": "maven",
          "path": "/console-java-simple",
          "attributes": {
            "language": [
              "java"
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "commands": [
        {
          "commandLine": "mvn -f ${current.project.path} clean install",
          "name": "console-java-simple:build",
          "type": "mvn",
          "attributes": {
            "goal": "Build",
            "previewUrl": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "commandLine": "mvn -f ${current.project.path} clean install \njava -jar ${current.project.path}/target/*.jar",
          "name": "console-java-simple:run",
          "type": "mvn",
          "attributes": {
            "goal": "Run",
            "previewUrl": ""
          }
        }
      ],
      "name": "wksp-tecj",
      "attributes": {
        "editor": "org.eclipse.che.editor.theia:1.0.0",
        "plugins": "che-machine-exec-plugin:0.0.1"
      },
      "links": []
    },
    "status": "RUNNING",
    "temporary": false,
    "id": "workspacekiflnbnct799hr1x",
    "attributes": {
      "org.eclipse.che.runtimes_id": "runtimesoz72dz3yks5wkvai",
      "updated": "1549642673199",
      "created": "1549625018493",
      "stackId": "che7-preview"
    }
  }
]

[benoitf]

@ibuziuk you should use /workspace/<workspace-id> (/workspace is not giving these details)

[benoitf]

@ibuziuk and some links are only available when a workspace is running (didn't check for ide)

[ibuziuk]

you should use /workspace/<workspace-id> (/workspace is not giving these details)

@benoitf hmm.. interesting was it always like that or. smth. have changed in API recently ?

[ibuziuk]

ok seems that ide link presents in the response even for stopped workspace and navigating to it start che 7 workspace. All looks good - thanks @vparfonov