Failing to resolve and publish vscjava.vscode-gradle

[vince-fugnitto]

Description

There is an issue when attempting to resolve the Gradle for Java causing the extension to never be published at a newer version. This means that only a single version exists on Open-VSX (~5 month old pre-release version).

The extension is referenced under extensions.json but there are issues resolving the extension during CI:

https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/blob/6c39f3f4bd307cc411b614d58eacb7b556db2460/extensions.json#L1425-L1427

[FAIL] Could not process extension: {
  "extension": {
    "id": "vscjava.vscode-gradle",
    "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-gradle"
  },
  "context": {
    "msVersion": "3.15.0",
    "msLastUpdated": "2024-07-19T03:23:19.677Z",
    "msInstalls": 3052039,
    "msPublisher": "vscjava",
    "ovsxVersion": "3.13.2024011802",
    "ovsxLastUpdated": "2024-02-13T19:21:03.109Z"
  }
}
vscjava.vscode-gradle: failed to resolve

Reason

The extension cannot be resolved due to a couple of reasons:

• the extension's sources (ex: package.json) can be found under the /extensions folder https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-gradle/tree/develop/extension not the root of the repository like the extensions.json references https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-gradle
• the build and packaging of the extension is more complex and cannot be automatically inferred by the CI (proper build commands need to be used)

Additional Information

• Extension vscode-gradle not up-to-date after repo migration #730

cc @kineticsquid

[kineticsquid]

We had issues with this extension before, don't recall the detail, which is why I published the one version. I've just updated it with the latest. Though, this won't resolve the auto publishing.