Feature Request: tasks get inputs from nodejs or shell

[Antecer]

We hope that in VSCode's tasks, it's possible to use Node.js scripts or shell scripts to dynamically generate candidate lists, allowing us to obtain the latest custom options before executing the script, rather than relying on static predefined choices.

I think the tasks.json will like this:

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "inputs": [
        {
            "id": "pickTarget",
            "type": "process",
            "command": "node",
            "args": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/tools/get_targets.mjs"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "buildDebug",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "cmd.exe",
            "args": [
                "/c",
                "xmake config --mode=debug && xmake project -k compile_commands && xmake build ${input:pickTarget}"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
            },
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": false
            }
        }
    ]
}

[vs-code-engineering]

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Happy Coding!

[vs-code-engineering]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!