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CodeQL: Open test as current database

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

The issue does not name files or tests. First investigate the database-corruption blocker when tests run with a test database open in CodeQL; then trace the existing failed-test right-click actions and database-selection flow in the VS Code extension. Done means a failed test can open its test database as the current database without reintroducing corruption problems.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement VSCode

Note: this issue is currently blocked, but adding it here so we know to work on it when the blocker is removed.

When a test fails, I can right-click on it and have the useful options to see or accept the difference. One other useful thing to do is to locate the test database on disk and set it as the current database so that I can run queries and quick-evaluations against it.

However, there are currently issues with database corruption when you run tests while the test database is open in codeql, so currently we don't want to make it easier to open the test data and hit this problem more often than they do currently until we fix that problem.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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539
Forks
240
Avg merge
2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
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