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Prerequisites
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The following products should be installed:
- VSCode Plugin 2.0.0
- uip-cli
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- 2.0.0
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- Universal Controller
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- 7.4.0.0
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- Universal Agent 7.
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- 4.0.0
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All work will be done in a Python 3.7.16 virtual environment. Make sure the uip-cli is installed in the virtual environment.
Introduction
We will create an Extension that uses the requests module (pure Python) and psutil module (not pure Python as it requires C runtime).
Step 1 - Initializing the Extension
Open VSCode to an empty folder (e.g. /tmp/tutorial) and activate the virtual environment you wish to use.
Initialize the ue-task extension by clicking:
For this tutorial, all parameters are suitable so, just pressing 'Enter' to select the default for each parameter is sufficient.
Once initialized, you should now have a file called requirements.txt in your working folder:
Open the file and add requests==2.28.2 (version is optional) as follows:
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# # Specify any third-party Python modules that should be bundled with the # extension. uip-cli will automatically download and bundle the modules # upon running `uip build` or `uip push`. # # Refer to https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/requirements-file-format/ # for the expected format. # requests==2.28.2 |
Step 2 - Using requests module
Open extension.py and modify it as follows:
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On lines 36-40, we call requests.get on a sample url and print the status code
Step 3 - Pushing out Extension
We are ready to test out our extension!
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Running the Push All command internally runs the Build All command followed by the Upload All command. The Build All command will download all dependencies specified in requirements.txt to a folder called 3pp and package the folder in the final package archive.