Extension is being loaded in non-go projects

[ThaDaVos]

What version of Go, VS Code & VS Code Go extension are you using?

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  • Not installed (I only have it installed in my WSL environment)
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  • Version: 1.81.1 (user setup)
    Commit: 6c3e3dba23e8fadc360aed75ce363ba185c49794
    Date: 2023-08-09T22:22:42.175Z
    Electron: 22.3.18
    ElectronBuildId: 22689846
    Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
    Node.js: 16.17.1
    V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
    OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.25941
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  • Latest
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  • Not installed (I only have it installed in my WSL environment)

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When opening VSCode and loading a non-go project, the extension is still being loaded - in my current environment this causes the error "GO binary not found" - rather than installing GO in my windows environment too, I rather have the GO extension not being loaded in non-go projects, I know this is possible as other extensions do it too - so why doesn't this one?

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open a non-go project, for example a DotNet project
2. The GO extension still gets enabled/loaded into vscode even though it won't be used

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[ThaDaVos]

FYI: I de-installed the extension on my Windows Side for now - really curious how it got installed there though as I only installed it when connected to WSL - but maybe it's one of those extensions which needs to be installed on the host side

[hyangah]

Is the repository an open source one?

vscode-go/package.json

Lines 96 to 111 in d9015c1

	"activationEvents": [
	"onLanguage:go",
	"workspaceContains:*.go",
	"workspaceContains:*/*.go",
	"workspaceContains:*/*/*.go",
	"onCommand:go.gopath",
	"onCommand:go.goroot",
	"onCommand:go.tools.install",
	"onCommand:go.locate.tools",
	"onCommand:go.show.commands",
	"onCommand:go.run.modinit",
	"onDebugInitialConfigurations",
	"onDebugResolve:go",
	"onWebviewPanel:welcomeGo",
	"onView:go.test.profile"
	],

specifies the list of events that trigger the extension activation (e.g. having a go file somewhere, having a go file open, or some other extensions invoke one of the commands this extension implements). Can you please check the log in "Output: Show Output Channels..." -> "Extension Host" and see what event caused 'golang.go' activation?

[ThaDaVos]

It happened on all my projects - even just created folders - but I'll check

[ThaDaVos]

Here's the log, I added numbers to the lines - see line 58:

1  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.105 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode.test-adapter-converter, startup: true, activationEvent: '*', root cause: hbenl.vscode-test-explorer
2  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.108 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension jameslan.yaclock, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
3  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.109 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension johnpapa.vscode-peacock, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
4  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.112 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension L13RARY.l13-projects, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
5  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.117 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension lihui.vs-color-picker, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
6  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.119 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension mtxr.sqltools, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
7  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.148 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension nhoizey.gremlins, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
8  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.149 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension nitayneeman.git-semantic-commit, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
9  | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.156 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension spmeesseman.vscode-taskexplorer, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
10 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.205 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension stkb.rewrap, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
11 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.404 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.git, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
12 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.428 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.github, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
13 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.436 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension eservice-online.vs-sharper, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
14 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.472 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.vscode-dotnet-runtime, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp', root cause: ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
15 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.520 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.vscode-dotnet-pack, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
16 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.542 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension nromanov.dotnet-meteor, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
17 | 2023-09-08 09:14:07.553 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension poohcom1.csharp-prettier-docs, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
18 | 2023-09-08 09:14:10.550 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.emmet, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage'
19 | 2023-09-08 09:14:10.554 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension 42Crunch.vscode-openapi, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
20 | 2023-09-08 09:14:10.758 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension hbenl.vscode-test-explorer, startup: true, activationEvent: '*'
21 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.412 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.csharp, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp', root cause: ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
22 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.512 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.github-authentication, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onAuthenticationRequest:github'
23 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.539 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.json-language-features, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:jsonc'
24 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.551 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.typescript-language-features, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:jsonc'
25 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.644 [warning] [redhat.vscode-yaml] Accessing a resource scoped configuration without providing a resource is not expected. To get the effective value for '[yaml]', provide the URI of a resource or 'null' for any resource.
26 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.661 [warning] [redhat.vscode-yaml] Accessing a resource scoped configuration without providing a resource is not expected. To get the effective value for '[yaml]', provide the URI of a resource or 'null' for any resource.
27 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.661 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.microsoft-authentication, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onAuthenticationRequest:microsoft'
28 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.705 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.csdevkit, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
29 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.856 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.dotnet-maui, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
30 | 2023-09-08 09:14:11.891 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-dotnettools.vscodeintellicode-csharp, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:csharp'
31 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.871 [info] Eager extensions activated
32 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.873 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.debug-auto-launch, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
33 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.875 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.merge-conflict, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
34 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.883 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-recommender, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
35 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.890 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension actboy168.tasks, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
36 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.892 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension bierner.emojisense, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
37 | 2023-09-08 09:14:12.899 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension eamodio.gitlens, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
38 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.054 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension equinusocio.vsc-material-theme-icons, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
39 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.094 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension esbenp.prettier-vscode, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
40 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.125 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension genieai.chatgpt-vscode, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
41 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.141 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension maptz.regionfolder, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
42 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.155 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension moshfeu.compare-folders, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
43 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.325 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
44 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.361 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
45 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.377 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-vscode.remote-server, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
46 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.383 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension PeterSchmalfeldt.explorer-exclude, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
47 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.394 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension PKief.material-icon-theme, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
48 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.399 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ritwickdey.LiveServer, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
49 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.413 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ryu1kn.partial-diff, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
50 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.419 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
51 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.517 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vsls-contrib.codetour, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
52 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.522 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension WallabyJs.console-ninja, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
53 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.849 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.grunt, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:grunt'
54 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.853 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.gulp, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:gulp'
55 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.858 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.jake, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:jake'
56 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.864 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension vscode.npm, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:npm'
57 | 2023-09-08 09:14:13.885 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension Dart-Code.dart-code, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:dart'
58 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.057 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension golang.go, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:go'
59 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.130 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension ms-azuretools.vscode-docker, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:docker-build'
60 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.455 [error] Activating extension golang.go failed due to an error:
61 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.455 [error] undefined
62 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.589 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker-dutch, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onStartupFinished'
63 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.729 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension mechatroner.rainbow-csv, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:plaintext'
64 | 2023-09-08 09:14:14.735 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension Vue.volar, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:plaintext'
65 | 2023-09-08 09:14:34.318 [info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension emilast.LogFileHighlighter, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onLanguage:log'

[hyangah]

Thanks. From the log it is obvious that something was triggering the 'go' type task.

[info] ExtensionService#_doActivateExtension golang.go, startup: false, activationEvent: 'onTaskType:go'

In fact, golang.go isn't the only one. It seems like grunt, gulp, jake, npm, dart, docker extensions that offer default Tasks were all activated. Just golang.go extension's activation became more visible because it requires go during activation and fails hard if it cannot find go.

Looks like microsoft/vscode#192043 is related.

[ThaDaVos]

But the thing is - the above log is on opening of the project - haven't run any tasks yet - for me it happens just on loading of the project, not even started debugging etc

[ThaDaVos]

Something is doing a scan for tasks at startup and I bet this is the culprit - thing is, Extension Bisect didn't find what did it

[ThaDaVos]

Apparently that was caused by Task Explorer extension - but disabling it didn't solve the issue:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=spmeesseman.vscode-taskexplorer

[ThaDaVos]

Got it fixed - it was https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=actboy168.tasks

[hyangah]

Thanks @ThaDaVos for sharing your finding with other users.
Closing since this is an issue between vscode and other extensions.

[ThaDaVos]

Please help by upvoting: microsoft/vscode#192657