Autocompletion in jsonnet imported libraries with qbec

[rgershkovich]

Hello guys,

First of all, thanks a lot for your work on qbec, we hugely depend on this tool.
I understand this is not a qbec-specific question, but as you probably use jsonnet for Kubernetes a lot yourself and also have some suggestions for VSCode here I might give a try.

May I ask you for hints regarding IDE setup for autocompletion from imported libraries? I can't understand if I am doing it wrong, or it is not possible to do currently.

What I want to have (using https://github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-libsonnet):

local k = import '1.23/main.libsonnet';

local container = k.core.v1.container;

container.new(config.name, image) +
container.withVolumeMounts($._config.volume_mounts) +
container.with ...

When i write container.with I want to have a suggestion from the list of possible values. Would be nice to have suggestion from k.core.v1 ... list, but this is less desirable.

What I tried:

• VSCode with https://github.com/grafana/jsonnet-language-server: have to disable tanka mode, does autocomplete for standard library and self/$ but nothing from imported libraries, also you can't specify external jsonnet interpreter, so custom things like glob-import are not supported
• VSCode with https://github.com/Sebbia/vscode-jsonnet-ng: nearly same experience, e.g. you can specify jsonnet-qbec, but config options are not compatible (like -J instead of --jpath) and can't be changed, in default mode does not autocomplete from libs
• IntelliJ with https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18752-jsonnet-language-server: crashes PyCharm CE when enabled with Could not initialize class com.github.zzehring.intellijjsonnet.JsonnetFileType

Would be grateful for any recommendations as greping through mixin stuff is suboptimal. Thanks a lot!

[gotwarlost]

We don;t actually use a lot of complex libraries in jsonnet. That said...

Would it be helpful if jsonnet-qbec supported the same flags as jsonnet?