Fallback for when extension is not installed?

[bmcdonnell-fb]

Thanks for your work on this useful extension.

Is it possible to use it to create a variable when the extension is installed, but have a graceful fallback for when it's not installed, to let the developer continue to work without it?

I'm using Command Variable to generate a datetime in a logfile name (Marus/cortex-debug#1154 (comment)). Is it possible to modify this (and/or add to tasks.json or something) so that if this extension is not installed, I can still debug, and just omit the datetime from the filename?

[rioj7]

@bmcdonnell-fb If you look at the source code line 337 for an input-command variable the case of a rejected Thennable/Promise (.catch()) is not implemented (Unknown command). Do you want an error or an empty string?

We can add a feature request issue.

[bmcdonnell-fb]

@rioj7 I'd like an empty string in my use case. (Not to say that should be the only or default behavior.)

Thanks. :)

[bmcdonnell-fb]

@rioj7 actually, I'm not sure I understand what you have in mind. I don't think you can fix an issue for developers who don't have the extension installed, by adding a feature to the extension? This seems like something you'd just document how to do.

[rioj7]

@bmcdonnell-fb The linked source code is from VSC, not the extension.
The added feature to VSC could be what to do when a command is not found in an input variable in a task or launch config.

[bmcdonnell-fb]

@rioj7 ah, that makes more sense. 😄