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Do not continuously prompt User to download Java Extension from Microsoft #136301

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alokkumarsinha opened this issue Nov 2, 2021 · 21 comments
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Do not continuously prompt User to download Java Extension from Microsoft #136301

alokkumarsinha opened this issue Nov 2, 2021 · 21 comments
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@alokkumarsinha
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Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

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Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Install Graal Tools for Java Extension Pack
  2. Create a project (or create a Java class)
  3. On every create, Microsoft keeps giving a recommendation to install MS Java Extension (and other components like Language Server). The user already has all of these installed when they have installed Graal Tool for Java from Oracle.

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Does the gear wheel button offer you any further options?

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alokkumarsinha commented Nov 2, 2021 •
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Ah, we have always 'deleted' the button using 'x'. Tried the Gear and picked don't recommend again and it seems to have stopped. I will ask some others to try it.

Related question: is there an API Graal Team can call to disable this prompt altogether when we install Graal Tool for Java VS Code Extension. Very confusing for the developer

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sandy081 commented Nov 3, 2021

Can you please check what extensions this is recommending? And do you have those recommended extensions installed?

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alokkumarsinha commented Nov 3, 2021 •
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When I am building a java-based application, I want to use Graal Tools for Java Extension. But, whenever, I create a new java file, VS Code is recommending Microsoft's Java Extension (which is not right since I already downloaded Graal Extension). and no, I don't have or want to install MS's Java Extension (and all other ancilillary stuff it downloads). Please speak with Rome.Li@microsoft.com who has fuller context.

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sandy081 commented Nov 3, 2021

Got it. May be we shall not recommend the language extension which we configured in the product, if user has already installed another extensions supporting the language.

@isidorn @chrisdias what do you think?

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isidorn commented Nov 4, 2021

@sandy081 I think that makes sense in general.
However I would keep this issue open to gather more user feedback before we do any change.

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atom0s commented Nov 8, 2021

Mentioned similar in my feature request here: #136644

Having a settings option to just completely disable 'pack recommendations' would be nice/ideal.

It's also sad to see this is basically just pushing Microsoft stuff. Kind of anti-competitive to other devs making useful extensions for things.

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@isidorn How long will VS Code seek input before executing on a plan to address the original issue raised? Thanks, Alok

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atom0s commented Dec 6, 2021

@isidorn How long will VS Code seek input before executing on a plan to address the original issue raised? Thanks, Alok

Sadly, I don't think we'll see them actually fix this and will eventually be up to a third-party developer to make a 'block' for nonsense additions like this. If you check out my issue linked above, they completely derailed the conversation into something else and ignored my original post pretty much entirely.

It seems they are more interested in getting people to install as many Microsoft branded extensions as possible than to actually support the third-party community that made this tool what it is today.

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isidorn commented Dec 7, 2021

This has only been open for 1 month. We are still waiting for additional user feedback.
We do not do things hastily. Thank you for your understanding.

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atom0s commented Dec 7, 2021

Care to link to the discussions that were had to have this feature implemented in the first place? Doesn't seem like there are any for it to be added and then not even given the option to disable it without just fully disabling all suggestions.

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This behaviour is very annoying, can the priority on this one be increased please? It is painful to be continuously hassled to install plugins I do not want

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nickzhums commented Jan 5, 2022 •
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Hi @alokkumarsinha

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Currently, GraalVM Tools for Java still automatically disables core features of Extension Pack for Java if both extension packs are present. Since two extension packs might have their specific scenarios, for example, Spring users still need to install the Extension Pack for Java for Spring development, simply disabling features in another extension doesn't seem the correct course of action.

It's very likely to for a user to two install both extensions for different purposes. I'm a bit skeptical about the automatic suppression of GraalVM Tools for Java. Do you know when this issue can be addressed?

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@nickzhums I think we need a recommendation on how to deal with this. Clearly the two extensions cannot be used at the same time so is there a way allow the user to choose one on a per workspace basis? Are there APIs for this? We need to know how this can be addressed and of course will address it.

Note I think it will also need to be addressed on the VSCode for Java side since if if the user chooses to use GraalVM Tools for Java then they shouldn't be prompted or continuously hassled to use another extension.

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isidorn commented Jan 6, 2022

Thank you very much for your feedback.
Assigning to the February milestone so @sandy081 and me look into a solution for this then.

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isidorn commented Feb 11, 2022 •
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We have pushed a fix for this. Please try it out from VS Code insiders on Monday and let us know how it goes.
We will no longer recommend the java pack when ASF.apache-netbeans-java is installed.

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Thank you!

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alokkumarsinha commented Feb 11, 2022 via email

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To verify:

  • Open VS Code (use fresh user data and extensions data directory)
  • Install ASF.apache-netbeans-java extension
  • Create a java file
  • Make sure there is no recommendation to install Java Extension Pack
  • Uninstall ASF.apache-netbeans-java extension and reload window
  • Create a java file
  • Make sure there is a recommendation to install Java Extension Pack

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alokkumarsinha commented Feb 22, 2022 via email

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isidorn commented Feb 22, 2022

Great, thanks @alokkumarsinha
Adding verified label.

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