Trouble publishing to Open VSX

Hello! 👋 We would love to have the redhat.java extension available in https://open-vsx.org

So we’ve recently added it to an auto-publishing script, but it turns out that our script is not packaging the redhat.java extension correctly.

Here is the steps that it currently runs to publish redhat.java:

git clone https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java
cd vscode-java/
npm install
npx ovsx publish

This results in a broken extension: https://open-vsx.org/extension/redhat/java which we are trying to remove from https://open-vsx.org and republish correctly.

We found that the extension is missing at least the Java Language Server, and that it would require at least one extra step between npm install and ovsx publish:

./node_modules/.bin/gulp download_server

However, I wonder why this isn’t part of the vscode:prepublish steps? (The ovsx CLI will automatically run that before publishing.)

Also, if you’re interested in taking over the publishing to https://open-vsx.org from this repository (which may be better long-term), you can simply call npx ovsx publish in your CI (you’ll also need a OVSX_PAT environment variable, containing a token from https://open-vsx.org/user-settings/tokens).

Environment

• Operating System: Ubuntu
• JDK version: ?
• Visual Studio Code version: *
• Java extension version: *

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run npm install
2. Run npx ovsx publish
3. Notice that the extension published to https://open-vsx.org/extension/redhat/java is incomplete (i.e. broken)

See also https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/7448

Current Result

Published extension is missing Java Language Server.

Expected Result

… should include Java Language Server.

Additional Informations

Currently auto-published from https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/blob/f23b96303537f99369bf6878075045de89663a3a/extensions.json#L288-L293, but publishing needs to be fixed and/or migrated to this repository.

[fbricon]

Ok I pushed it manually for now: https://open-vsx.org/extension/redhat/java I also claimed the redhat namespace: https://github.com/eclipse/open-vsx.org/issues/6

Now I need to configure the Jenkins jobs on the RH side to do the publishing automatically

[fbricon]

Currently, most releases of vscode-java can not be rebuilt from source after a certain time, because the server is rebuilt by the CI, instead of being downloaded from a known place. Yes, we know we need to improve that. In the meantime, would it make things easier if you downloaded the released builds directly from our github releases page?