I'm minding my own business editing a pants.toml in PyCharm, and suddenly I get context-sensitive autocomplete for every scope and option, without having to do anything at all. Of course I quickly realized this is due to https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/17895. Huge hat-tip to @fresh-cat-90827 for this!!

Does VSCode get this natively? Or is there some extra work?

Glad to hear this is useful!

Does VSCode get this natively? Or is there some extra work?

I am afraid you have to install an extension, see https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.even-better-toml, and pick the Pantsbuild schema I have a ticket to add a new goal to Pants, if the team thinks it's reasonable https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18126

First of all thanks @fresh-cat-90827 I just installed it inside VSCode. Works great! Although I saw these warnings

{"add":["pants.backend.awslambda.python","pants.backend.build_files.fmt.black","pants.backend.python","pants.backend.docker","pants.backend.docker.lint.hadolint","pants.backend.experimental.python.lint.autoflake","pants.backend.python.lint.bandit","pants.backend.python.lint.black","pants.backend.python.lint.docformatter","pants.backend.python.lint.flake8","pants.backend.python.typecheck.mypy","pants.backend.python.lint.isort","pants.backend.plugin_development","internal_plugins"]} is not of type "array"Even Better TOML

thanks @refined-addition-53644 for giving it a go! Yep, these are expected, please see https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/17915. We kind of exploit the TOML syntax with the

.add

and

.remove

. The schema for the arrays can be somewhat sophisticated, so I didn't feel comfortable doing this in the first iteration

I am afraid you have to install an extension, see https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.even-better-toml, and pick the Pantsbuild schema

Thanks! That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. Still awesome :)