Rulewerk Visual Studio Code Extension

This VS Code extension provides language support for Rulewerk rule language files with .rls extension.

Features

• Rulewerk language syntax highlighting for .rls files
• Rulewerk interactive shell can be launched in the integrated terminal (via the Run Rulewerk command or the dedicated "play" button for a specific .rls file). Loading the knowledge base of active .rls files into the shell.

Installation instructions

• Install the VS Code editor extension
• Install the Java runtime environment on your system
  • The minimum required version is Java 8 (Standard Edition)
  • Ensure the java command is available through the PATH environment variable, or configure rulewerk.javaPath in the extension setting

Extension Settings

Overview of extension settings (see the settings page of your editor for additional information):

• rulewerk.rulewerkClientPath
  • Path to an executable org.semanticweb.rulewerk-client .jar file. Used for reasoning over Rulewerk files in the integrated Rulewerk interactive shell terminal. Defaults to the Rulewerk client jar shipped by the extension, compatible with Rulewerk version v0.8.0.
• rulewerk.javaPath
  • Path to Java runtime executable. This setting can be used if the directory containing the java executable is not in the PATH environment variable.

Development

Building the extension

• Ensure that suitable version of org.semanticweb.rulewerk-client can be found at vscode-extension/libs/rulewerk-client.jar. This can either be a released version or a self-built snaphsot version.