Common Tools (common-tools)

A VS Code extension that provides common development tool commands, supporting right-click group menus and command palette operations.

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Features

JSON Tools

• Format (common-tools.json.format)

  • Formats JSON with proper indentation
  • Enhanced: Automatically removes outer quotes and escape characters
  • Enhanced: Supports single-quote JSON conversion to standard double-quote format
  • Enhanced: Automatically extracts JSON from text with prefixes (e.g., "Update Shadow Request: {...}")
  • Example: "{\"key\":\"value\"}" → properly formatted JSON
  • Example: Update Shadow Request: {"version":134} → formatted JSON (ignoring prefix)

• Deep Format (common-tools.json.deep-format)

  • Recursively parses and formats nested JSON strings within JSON objects
  • Perfect for handling JSON fields that contain escaped JSON strings
  • Enhanced: Also supports text with prefixes
  • Example: {"data":"{\"nested\":\"value\"}"} → fully expanded and formatted

• Compress (common-tools.json.compress)

  • Minifies JSON to a single line without spaces
  • Enhanced: Supports text with prefixes

• Compress One Line (common-tools.json.compress-one-line)

  • Compresses JSON with minimal spacing for readability
  • Adds spaces after colons and commas

Enhanced Processing: All JSON tools now feature:

• Automatic trimming and comma/space removal
• Smart escape character handling
• Single-quote to double-quote conversion
• Support for deeply nested JSON strings
• Automatic extraction of JSON from text with prefixes or suffixes
• Handles formats like: "Log: {...}", "Response: {...} - received", etc.

Time Tools

• Get Current Timestamp (common-tools.time.now-timestamp)
• Format Local Date (common-tools.time.format.local-date)
• Format Local DateTime (common-tools.time.format.local-datetime)
• Format Local DateTime with Milliseconds (common-tools.time.format.local-datetime-ms)
• Parse String to Timestamp (common-tools.time.parse-to-timestamp)
  • Supported formats: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm, YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss, YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS, HH:mm, HH:mm:ss
• Format commands support 10/13 digit timestamps input. 10-digit timestamps are automatically converted without milliseconds, 13-digit timestamps preserve milliseconds. Returns an empty string when selection is empty.

String Format Conversion Tools

• lower case (common-tools.string.lower-case)
• UPPER CASE (common-tools.string.upper-case)
• camelCase (common-tools.string.camel-case)
• PascalCase (common-tools.string.pascal-case)
• snake_case (common-tools.string.snake-case)
• SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE (common-tools.string.screaming-snake-case)
• kebab-case (common-tools.string.kebab-case)
• dot.case (common-tools.string.dot-case)
• Capitalized_Snake_Case (common-tools.string.capitalized-snake-case)
• space separated (common-tools.string.space-separated)

String tool menu items are grouped for clarity, with common, case conversion, and special formats clearly organized.

UUID Tools

• Generate UUID v4 (common-tools.uuid.generate)
  • Generates a random UUID and inserts it at the current cursor position or replaces the selected content
  • Automatically copies to clipboard when no editor is open
• Generate UUID v4 without Hyphens (common-tools.uuid.generate-without-hyphens)
  • Generates a random UUID without hyphens and inserts it at the current cursor position or replaces the selected content
  • Automatically copies to clipboard when no editor is open

Random String Tool

• Generate Random String (common-tools.random.generate)
  • Generates a random string with customizable length and character sets
  • Supports combinations of numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and special symbols
  • Inserts at the current cursor position, or at the end of file if no cursor is present
  • Displays the generated random string when no editor is open

Base64 Tools

• Base64 Encode (common-tools.base64.encode)
  • Encodes selected text or entire file content to Base64 format
  • Supports UTF-8 encoding
• Base64 Decode (common-tools.base64.decode)
  • Decodes Base64 encoded text back to plain text
  • Automatically validates Base64 format
• Base64 URL Safe Encode (common-tools.base64.encode-url-safe)
  • Encodes text to Base64 URL Safe format (replaces + with -, / with _, removes padding =)
  • Perfect for use in URLs and filenames
• Base64 URL Safe Decode (common-tools.base64.decode-url-safe)
  • Decodes Base64 URL Safe encoded text
  • Automatically handles missing padding

Menu and Usage

1. Select the content you want to process, or don't select anything to process the entire file.
2. Right-click and select the "Common Tools" menu, then choose the corresponding feature by group.
3. Or press Cmd+Shift+P (Mac)/Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows) to open the command palette, type the command name (such as "base64 encode" or "timestamp"), and press Enter.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

Contribution

Issues and PRs are welcome.

Email: wyl19940929@163.com