Support a new debugPreStep configuration parameter in launch config

[ptrthomas]

On the Karate debug-server side, I've added support for a pre-step hook. This is explained here:

https://github.com/intuit/karate/wiki/ZIP-Release#pre-step-hook

In fact it works without any change needed on the VS Code plugin side. I think the only change needed is to declare it, else you get the warning squiggle as seen below:

By the way I implemented the "Copy Value" feature as explained here: microsoft/vscode#27950 (comment)

just mentioning in case this is something you'd like to add to the karate-runner documentation as well.

testing both the above should be simple, just build the karate.jar as per the developer guide: https://github.com/intuit/karate/wiki/Developer-Guide#build-standalone-jar-and-zip

[kirksl]

@ptrthomas nice additions. ill try to get to this soon. will Karate just ignore debugPreStep in the debug config if using a version of Karate that doesn't support it yet? also can I document this will be in 0.9.6?

[ptrthomas]

• yes it will be gracefully ignored
• yes should be in 0.9.6 for sure and planning 0.9.6.RC3 in a couple of days

[kirksl]

now supported in debug configurations. i left it out of the snippets though so a user would have to explicitly specify it by typing it in. let me know if you think that is ok. also didn't document anything about usage of the debugger. there's so much to the debugger that i hoped users would goto the VSCode documentation to understand how to use it and all of it's features. 36ba80d

[ptrthomas]

@kirksl I think you have a canned snippet for the debugPreStep can you please change the comma to a +, this is because I decided to change the API slightly, apologies

since I'm here can I ask - have you documented the need to switch the terminal from "PowerShell" to cmd.exe anyplace that I can point users to ? I'm finding this is a must-do when using the Karate Runner on Windows.

[ptrthomas]

I'm going to paste some images here so that I can refer to them in wikis :)

[kirksl]

@ptrthomas no worries. i'll reopen to reshape that canned code snippet. regarding switching to cmd.exe yes it's at the bottom of the readme also reflected in the VSCode market place here -->

[ptrthomas]

@kirksl thanks ! also one more minor change, omit the robot. it can just be:

input(Key.ALT + Key.TAB)

[kirksl]

fixed. 5b25104