make_devcontainer_folder_uri.md

Deprecation

See microsoft/vscode-remote-release#2133 (comment)

Usage

Assuming the script is named make_devcontainer_folder_uri.py, is executable, and is in your $PATH:

# Open . in dev container
code --folder-uri $(make_devcontainer_folder_uri.py)

# Open ./myapp in dev container
code --folder-uri $(make_devcontainer_folder_uri.py ./myapp)

LICENSE

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Copyright 2022 (c) Ilya Sotkov

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make_devcontainer_folder_uri.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import re
import sys


def main():
    workspace_path = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ".")
    devcontainer_config_file_path = find_devcontainer_config_file_path(workspace_path)
    remote_workspace_folder = get_remote_workspace_folder(devcontainer_config_file_path)
    workspace_path_hex = workspace_path.encode().hex()
    folder_uri = "vscode-remote://dev-container+" + workspace_path_hex + remote_workspace_folder
    print(folder_uri)


def find_devcontainer_config_file_path(workspace_path):
    paths = [
        os.path.join(workspace_path, ".devcontainer.json"),
        os.path.join(workspace_path, ".devcontainer", "devcontainer.json"),
    ]
    for path in paths:
        if os.path.isfile(path):
            return path
    raise OSError("Could not find dev container config file in any of: " + ", ".join(paths))


def get_remote_workspace_folder(config_path):
    config = open(config_path).read()
    pattern = r'"workspaceFolder"\s*:\s*"(.+)"'
    found = re.search(pattern, config)
    if not found:
        raise KeyError(
            "Could not find 'workspaceFolder' setting in your dev container config file!"
        )
    return found.group(1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Thanks a lot for sharing this script!
It make my workflow way easier by just calling an alias like devcontainer in my directory instead of dealing with the whole Reopen and rebuild UI fiasco in VSCode!

alias devcontainer="/usr/bin/code --folder-uri \$(python3 /workspace/dev-setup/make_devcontainer_folder_uri.py)"

Hi, Thanks to everyone for the input, based on the idea of the alias, I wrote a function in my .bashrc to be able to pass the path to the script:

devcon () { /usr/bin/code --folder-uri $(python3 /path/to/your/script.py "$@"); }

Hi @claudioparram,

I did something similar. On top of that I added a zsh shell completion script as well:

https://github.com/tuunit/dotfiles/blob/9ed10e4778735c395ff0d9ea1d0d18246e9e11d4/.zshrc#L63-L77

All my devcontainer specs live in a separate repository. This way when I enter devcontainer and press TAB my shell shows a list of all directories / devcontainers.

$ devcontainer <TAB>
devcon1 devcon2 devcon3