Do not overwrite a custom items in VSCode's "extensions.json" // Resolve

 #3374

HISTORY.rst

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ PlatformIO Core 4.0
 * Updated Unity tool to 2.5.0
 * Made package ManifestSchema compatible with marshmallow >= 3 (`issue #3296 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3296>`_)
 * Warn about broken library manifest when scanning dependencies (`issue #3268 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3268>`_)
+* Do not overwrite a custom items in VSCode's "extensions.json" (`issue #3374 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3374>`_)
 * Fixed an issue when ``env.BoardConfig()`` does not work for custom boards in extra scripts of libraries (`issue #3264 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3264>`_)
 * Fixed an issue with "start-group/end-group" linker flags on Native development platform (`issue #3282 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3282>`_)
 * Fixed default PIO Unified Debugger configuration for `J-Link probe <http://docs.platformio.org/page/plus/debug-tools/jlink.html>`__
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ PlatformIO Core 4.0
 * Fixed an issue with improperly handled compiler flags with space symbols in VSCode template (`issue #3364 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3364>`_)
 * Fixed an issue when no error is raised if referred parameter (interpolation) is missing in a project configuration file (`issue #3279 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3279>`_)
 
+
 4.1.0 (2019-11-07)
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platformio/ide/tpls/vscode/.vscode/extensions.json.tpl

@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
+% import json
+% import os
+% import re
+%
+% recommendations = set(["platformio.platformio-ide"])
+% previous_json = os.path.join(project_dir, ".vscode", "extensions.json")
+% if os.path.isfile(previous_json):
+%   with open(previous_json) as fp:
+%       contents = re.sub(r"^\s*//.*$", "", fp.read(), flags=re.M).strip()
+%   if contents:
+%       recommendations |= set(json.loads(contents).get("recommendations", []))
+%   end
+% end
 {
-	// See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827846
-	// for the documentation about the extensions.json format
-	"recommendations": [
-		"platformio.platformio-ide"
-	]
-}
+    // See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827846
+    // for the documentation about the extensions.json format
+    "recommendations": [
+% for i, item in enumerate(sorted(recommendations)):
+        "{{ item }}"{{ ("," if (i + 1) < len(recommendations) else "") }}
+% end
+    ]
+}