Code intellisense broken in few libraries

Libraries that are based on robotlibcore.DynamicCore do not provide class methods when accessed in the Python mode, in VSCode for example.

Verified with rpaframework==16.1.0

affected libraries (at least):

• RPA.Desktop
• RPA.PDF
• RPA.Windows

Original report by Andres Douglass in the Dev Slack - link

Information in the Robot Framework user guide

[douglassjohnandrew]

@cmin764 I know it’s been a while since this issue was closed but I wanted to apologize and thank you for the time you spent looking into this. I’m fairly new at Python development and for some reason I thought that if Intellisense didn’t work, that meant the code had syntax errors and wouldn’t work. If I had known that the code would work even without Intellisense highlighting it, I wouldn’t have submitted this as an issue at all. Thank you again for explaining what’s going on behind the scenes, it’s much appreciated

[aaltat]

I do not use VSCOde, so I am not able to answer your question. Generally speaking capabilities depends on the plugin used by in the VSCode. When looking matter from the PLC and dynamic library API point of view, there is not limitations when or how often keywords and other data from library is discovered. Plugin can do discovery every second, if that is the implementation of the plugin. But discovery should be done in the VSCode plugin side, library/PLC/dynamic library API can not push changes to VSCode direction.

The best solution from user point of view, would be automatic refresh for changes. Example plugin could discover files used by the library and detect changes on them. Example, I think, it is possible to use libdoc --specdocformatoption and that format should contain the file paths, where the keyword is implemented. Then plugin could use that information and discover the files it need to monitor. Or if not feasible to implement automatic discovery, then plugin could offer users a command to force refresh of the keywords.

In short, all depends on the VSCode plugin implementation, PLC and dynamic library API support your needs.