Net.Data for Visual Studio Code

An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Net.Data language. Net.Data is a server-side scripting language that extends web servers by enabling the dynamic generation of web pages using data from a variety of data sources. The data sources can include relational and non-relational database management systems such as DB2, DRDA-enabled databases, flat-file data, and native applications written in programming languages such as RPG, Cobol, Java, C, C++, and REXX. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/netdata-ibm-i

What is new in 1.0.9

• Go To Definition for V_columnName variables in SQL block

What is new in 1.0.8

• Go To References, Peak References

Functionality

This extension works for netdata file. It has the following language features:

• Syntax highlighting includes SQL and javascript
• Snippets for frequently used commands
• Definition of Net.Data Language
• Simple Language Client
• Go To Definition for %FUNCTION, %MACRO_FUNCTION, variables in %DEFINE
• Go To References, Peak References
• Outline structure of functions, report and html block

Syntax highlighting

Go To Definition

You can press F12 on function call or ctrl-click.

Go To references in current file

You can press Shift-F12 or Peek References.

Outline

Easy navigation to main important block of your code.

Snippets

More than 30 snippets

Structure

.
├── client // Language Client
│   ├── src
│       └── extension.ts // Language Client entry point
├── syntaxes
│   └── netdata.tmLanguage.json   // syntax
└── package.json          // The extension manifest.
    snippets.netdata.json // Snippets.
    language-configuration.json  // Configuration of language

Issues

https://github.com/jaroborovsky/vscode-netdata/issues

Contribution

• Download from github
• Run npm install
• Open VS Code on this folder.
• Press Ctrl+Shift+B to compile the client.
• Switch to the Debug viewlet.
• Select Launch Client from the drop down.
• Run the launch config.
• In the [Extension Development Host] instance of VSCode, open a document in 'netdata' language mode.
  • Type html or funct to see @HTML and FUNCTION snippet completion.

Publish extension

• vsce publish