DebugConfigurationProvider: support to return "compounds"

[atian25]

• VSCode Version: 1.17.2
• OS Version: Mac

1. DebugConfigurationProvider should support compounds
2. allow hidden or sort order at debug configuration drop list.

We only want to show user: Egg Debug and Egg Debug with brk(which is compounds)

so feature request is either provide a hidden property for "Egg Master", "Egg Agent", "Egg Worker", or compounds should show at top.

{
  // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible Node.js debug attributes.
  // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
  // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Egg Debug",
      "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
      "runtimeArgs": [ "run", "debug" ],
      "console": "integratedTerminal",
      "restart": true,
      "protocol": "auto",
      "port": 9999
    },
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Egg Master",
      "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
      "runtimeArgs": [ "run", "debug", "--", "--inspect-brk" ],
      "console": "integratedTerminal",
      "restart": true,
      "protocol": "inspector",
      "port": 9229
    },
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "attach",
      "name": "Egg Agent",
      "restart": true,
      "protocol": "inspector",
      "port": 5800
    },
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "attach",
      "name": "Egg Worker",
      "restart": true,
      "protocol": "inspector",
      "port": 9999
    }
  ],
  "compounds": [
    {
      "name": "Egg Debug with brk",
      "configurations": [ "Egg Master", "Egg Agent", "Egg Worker" ]
    }
  ]
}

move from #34668 (comment)

[philliphoff]

@weinand The linked issue #50605 was closer to my scenario but was closed as a dupe of this one. I would like to be able to resolve a single debug configuration from launch.json into multiple debug configurations. That is, I would like the option of DebugConfigurationProvider.resolveDebugConfiguration() returning an array of DebugConfiguration objects, including ones which may not exist in launch.json (i.e. that are completely generated).

This would be useful in cases where there is an orchestration of processes that need to be performed before it is known how many and which processes are to be debugged.

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