DVC View and Plots don't load in `vscode-dvc`

[jorgeorpinel]

UPDATE: Summary in #20 (comment)

I cloned https://github.com/iterative/dvc-checkpoints-mnist. I setup the IDE workspace so the extension is active.

I haven't run any experiments:

I check out the make_checkpoint branch. The DVC view and Plots Dashboard never load.

The Experiments Table says "No Experiments to Display."

Other components do load.

DVC virtual env is loaded via MS Python extension.

$ dvc version
DVC version: 2.11.0 (pip)
---------------------------------
Platform: Python 3.9.13 on macOS-12.4-arm64-arm-64bit
Supports:
        webhdfs (fsspec = 2022.5.0),
        http (aiohttp = 3.8.1, aiohttp-retry = 2.4.6),
        https (aiohttp = 3.8.1, aiohttp-retry = 2.4.6)
Cache types: <https://error.dvc.org/no-dvc-cache>
Caches: local
Remotes: None
Workspace directory: apfs on /dev/disk3s1s1
Repo: dvc, git

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p.s. the same happens in the included demo/ project if I set up the extension with "dvc.dvcPath": "demo/.env/bin/dvc" in .vscode/settings.json (no MS Python extension).

[jorgeorpinel]

⚠️ And while Experiments load, the Plots are also not loading on the official demo project for me:

Note that the project does come with some plots:

[shcheklein]

@jorgeorpinel I can't reproduce this.

How do you setup the env?
What to you in the output channel?

[jorgeorpinel]

How do you setup the env?

yarn setup:env as explained in the contrib guide. And then set demo/.env/bin/python as Python path (MS Python extension settings).

Will try a venv of my own ⏳
UPDATE: Didn't help (same issue).

[jorgeorpinel]

What to you in the output channel?

[version: 0.3.5, 2022-06-20T03:20:35.706Z, pid: 57255] > dvc plots diff demo workspace -o .dvc/tmp/plots --split --show-json - INITIALIZED
[version: 0.3.5, 2022-06-20T03:20:36.031Z, pid: 57255] > dvc plots diff demo workspace -o .dvc/tmp/plots --split --show-json - FAILED with code 1 (328ms)
ERROR: unknown Git revision 'demo'

Seems related to the monorepo structure.

[shcheklein]

@jorgeorpinel still can't reproduce it. The official demo project - do you open it as "vscode-dvc" or directly as "vscode-dvc/demo"?

[shcheklein]

Did you run an experiment with a name "demo", or is it a branch name? (trying to understand where does it get that demo revision name)

[jorgeorpinel]

I was looking at the whole repo. And again, experiments for ./demo/ do load this way.

And I didn't run any experiments yet. I guess the extension somehow knows that demo is the path to the DVC project.

[jorgeorpinel]

I just tried opening the subfolder directly in VS Code and I get the same problem, but with a different error in output:

python -m dvc plots diff plots-dashboard workspace -o .dvc/tmp/plots --split --show-json - FAILED with code 1 (475ms)
ERROR: unknown Git revision 'plots-dashboard'

UPDATE: Hold on... I shouldn't be in that branch which only exists locally ⏳