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IDE Auto Completion for keys

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#252 opened on May 11, 2023

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Description

VSCode has autocompletion of key names for regular dictionaries (only 1 level down unfortunately). I am not quite sure how that works, but could it somehow be extended to dot notations?

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Research direction
Investigate how VSCode provides autocompletion for regular dictionary keys (Python language server). Look into Box's implementation of dot notation access, likely via getattr or getitem . Check if type hints or a custom language server could be used to expose keys. Review similar projects or issues in the Box repository for prior discussions.
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python
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3
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1-3 hours
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Needs investigation
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Python basicsVSCode extension knowledge
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30