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Support use of environment variables in classPaths

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, typescript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by tracing how classPaths from launch.json are processed in the Java debugger, then reproduce the configuration using $HOME and the equivalent expanded path. Done means environment variables in classPaths resolve so the Java program can load classes from the referenced JAR.

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Description

ai-triaged enhancement feature request launch

w.r.t. launch.json, this does not work:

"classPaths": [
                "$Auto",
                "$HOME/.m2/repository/com/oracle/database/jdbc/ojdbc10/19.15.0.0.1/ojdbc10-19.15.0.0.1.jar"
            ]

The classes pointed to by $HOME/.m2/repository/com/oracle/database/jdbc/ojdbc10/19.15.0.0.1/ojdbc10-19.15.0.0.1.jar are not available to the Java program.

if I replace $HOME with its actual value, it works e.g.:

"classPaths": [
                "$Auto",
                "/Users/me/.m2/repository/com/oracle/database/jdbc/ojdbc10/19.15.0.0.1/ojdbc10-19.15.0.0.1.jar"
            ]
Environment
  • Operating System: Mac OS Big Sur
  • JDK version: 17
  • Visual Studio Code version:

Version: 1.74.2 (Universal)
Commit: e8a3071ea4344d9d48ef8a4df2c097372b0c5161
Date: 2022-12-20T10:26:09.430Z
Electron: 19.1.8
Chromium: 102.0.5005.167
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.15-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 20.6.0
Sandboxed: No

  • Java extension version:
  • Java Debugger extension version:
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