make-extension-config.py

"""Extension list to JSON.

Create an 'extensions.json' file based on the extensions installed in the
currently active environment (local or remote)
"""

import json
import subprocess

OUTPUT_JSON = ".insiders-extensions.json"
CODE_VERSION = "code-insiders"

# get a dump of the installed extensions from the local vcsode installation
result = (
    subprocess.run(
        [CODE_VERSION, "--list-extensions"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True
    )
    .stdout.decode("utf-8")
    .splitlines()
)

print(f"Found {len(result)} extensions installed.")

# if remote, the first line is the name of the environment we're running this
# on.
if "Extensions installed" in result[0]:
    CODE_ENVIRONMENT = result.pop(0).split(":")[1].strip()
else:
    CODE_ENVIRONMENT = "global"
print(f"Saving extensions.json for the '{CODE_ENVIRONMENT}' environment.")

output_dict: dict[str, list[str]] = {"recommendations": []}

for extension in result:
    output_dict["recommendations"].append(extension.strip())


with open(f"{CODE_ENVIRONMENT}{OUTPUT_JSON}", "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
    file.write(json.dumps(output_dict, indent=2))