Dinoco for Visual Studio Code

Dinoco provides first-class editing and database workflows for .dinoco schemas.

Language intelligence

• Live local diagnostics plus complete project validation on save
• Circular-safe, cached indexing of every reachable imported schema
• Context-aware completion for import paths, imported models/enums, scalar types, defaults, relations, local keys, referenced keys, and referential actions
• Hover documentation for types, fields, attributes, generators, configuration, and relation behavior
• Cross-file go to definition, find references, safe rename, symbol outline, folding, and smart selection ranges
• Semantic highlighting that reflects each identifier's real role (type declaration vs. reference, field, enum member, attribute) on top of the base TextMate grammar
• Formatting powered by the same formatter used by the Dinoco toolchain, and configurable from VS Code settings
• Quick fixes for incomplete configuration and close type-name typos

Database workflows

Use the Command Palette or the schema editor context menu to:

• Initialize a Dinoco project
• Generate Rust models
• Generate and review a migration
• Run pending migrations

Commands run in an interactive VS Code task terminal, preserving migration warnings and confirmation prompts.

Configuration

• dinoco.cli.path: path to the Dinoco CLI executable
• dinoco.server.path: optional custom language server binary
• dinoco.models.generateOnSave: generate models after saving a schema
• dinoco.trace.server: language-server protocol tracing

Formatter configuration

The formatter is AST-based (it parses the schema and re-emits it, rather than rewriting text), deterministic, and idempotent: formatting a file twice always produces the same output. It's configurable from VS Code settings:

{
	"dinoco.formatter.maxWidth": 100,
	"dinoco.formatter.useTabs": false,
	"dinoco.formatter.useSpaces": true,
	"dinoco.formatter.indentSize": 4,
	"dinoco.formatter.removeComments": false
}

• dinoco.formatter.maxWidth: maximum line width before the formatter breaks supported expressions (long import lists, attributes with named arguments such as @relation(...)) into multiple lines.
• dinoco.formatter.useTabs / dinoco.formatter.useSpaces: choose the indentation character. These are mutually exclusive — enabling one automatically disables the other, and the extension keeps them in sync if you edit settings.json by hand. If both ever end up true at once, tabs win.
• dinoco.formatter.indentSize: number of spaces per indentation level when using spaces. Has no effect when useTabs is enabled (one tab per level).
• dinoco.formatter.removeComments: remove all # and // comments from a schema when formatting it, instead of preserving them.

Set Dinoco as the default formatter for .dinoco files and enable format on save with:

{
	"[dinoco]": {
		"editor.defaultFormatter": "dinoco-rs.dinoco-vscode",
		"editor.formatOnSave": true
	}
}

(these are already the extension's activation defaults for the language).

The extension supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite schemas.

Learn more

Full documentation for the Dinoco ORM, its schema language, CLI, and query API lives at docs.dinoco.io.