[FEATURE REQUEST] VSCode autocomplete plugin

[gigi206]

All other similar tools (puppet, ansible, chef) have autocomplete tools:
cf https://youtu.be/oTNpobsCCS0?t=295

I think it would be a good point to develop a tool to help developers use Saltstack.

[mchugh19]

Timely report @gigi206! The saltstack vscode extension was just updated to support autocomplete of state modules for sls files, as well as test entries for saltcheck tst files. Additionally, you should now use the saltstack extension pack to ensure you have both the saltstack syntax and autocomplete plugin as well as the salt-lint plugin (which lints sls files).

[gigi206]

Great 👍
I'm going to update my extensions that already include these two to test 😊

[gigi206]

I just test.
It would be great if we could show the associated documentation when I put the mouse cursor above the function, for example:

my_surper_user:
  user.present:
    - name: gigix
    - uid: 1010

should return:

import salt.states.user
user.present.__doc__

Same thing for user:

import salt.states.user
user.__doc__

And same thing for user, but in this case, a parser is needed to extract the good value.

Also autocomplete required arguments when we press enter:

id:
  <state>.<function>: <<<<ENTER HERE

and this is autocomplete required arguments like:

id:
  <state>.<function>:
    - <args1>: aaa
    - <arg2>: bbb

We have just tp press tab to change aaa and bbb value

Take a look at ansible extension: