registerUriHandler - extension ID during development

[shoaib30]

Hi Everyone,
I am using registerUriHandler for my OAuth2 login flow.

From Docs :

For example, if the my.extension extension registers a uri handler, it will only be allowed to handle uris with the prefix product name://my.extension.

where my.extension is the extension ID.

I am not able to set the extension ID, and since I am still developing the value fetched from vscode.extensions.all for my extension does not have an ID.

Would be grateful if someone can help me form the appropriate callback url for the URI Handler

[shoaib30]

using

console.log(
    vscode.extensions.all.map((x) => x.id).filter((x) => x.includes("extensionName"))
  );

I got undefined_publisher.extensionName as the ID.

using vscode://undefined_publisher.extensionName routes correctly to the extension

Is there no way to pre-set the value of ID?

[r3m0t]

The id comes from package.json fields publisher and name. I haven't had issues using this (hard coded) even in development mode. I never checked the value in extensions.all though.

[shoaib30]

I was missing the publisher key in my package.json. I used the yo generator to get started, it doesn't set the published.

Thank you for the pointer!

[shoaib30]

As pointed out by @r3m0t the ID for the extension is created using <publisher_name>.<extension_name> and the values of these two are taken from package.json fields publisher and name

Hence the URI for the extension would be vscode://publisherName.ExtensionName

Reference: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/extension-manifest