Zato for Visual Studio Code

This is a Visual Studio Code extension that enables single keypress and single click hot-deployment of the active Python source file to a Zato cluster specified in your workspace or global configuration.

Setup

• Once you have installed the extension, visit the Security -> HTTP Basic Auth section of the Dashboard UI for your cluster:

  

• Select the Change password option for the pre-installed ide_publisher account:

  

• Set the password to a strong one, and choose OK.

• Open User Settings in Visual Studio Code, and filter the file by using the string "zato".

• Update the url key to point to the base URL of either your one of your Zato cluster servers, or its load balancer address. For example, http://zato:17010/ide-deploy.

• Update the password to match the password you entered above.

• Open the Visual Studio command palette (Cmd-Shift-P or Ctrl-Shift-P) and search for "zato".

• Select the Test Zato Connection command. A message will appear indicating communication with the cluster was successful.

Deployment

Make sure that each Python module with Zato services contains this marker at the top:

zato: ide-deploy=True

That will signal to the extension that this particular Python file contains services that can be hot-deployed to clusters.

Next, while editing a Python source file, simply tap Ctrl-Shift-L (or Cmd-Shift-L on Mac) to start deployment of the current file. The file's basename is used as its module filename on the server.

The hot-deploy feature is additionally available from the command palette (Ctrl-Shift-P) and as an editor toolbar option.

The source file is always assumed to be in UTF-8. This matches the expectation that Zato modules are always written in UTF-8.