Workspace is not started automatically from Dashboard after clicking "Open in IDE" button

[ibuziuk]

I suspect there is some problem / race condition with starting workspace - was able to reproduce the problem against https://rhche.openshift.io/dashboard/#/ dashboard:

1. Create workspace against vert.x stack
2. Press "Open in IDE" button:
   
3. ERROR: Workspace is not starting
   
4. Press "Start" -> workspace is successfully started

NOTE: che.workspace.auto_start is set to false for rh-che deployment, not sure if it is expected but IMO if user press Open in IDE button workspace should be started in anycase (the property should only handle the case of direct opening of the workspace URL e.g from bookmark ). Description of the property:

# By default, when users access to a workspace with its URL the workspace
# automatically starts if it is stopped. You can set this to false to disable this.
che.workspace.auto_start=true 

[garagatyi]

@vparfonov has IDE changed its behavior since Che5 in such cases?

[ghost]

@ibuziuk this is expected behavior since auto start is set to false and the IDE does not start a workspace. Open in IDE just opens IDE link i think but not actually initiates a POST request to start ws.

I do not have this problem with upstream Che

[ibuziuk]

@eivantsov yeah, I wrote about it in the issue description.

NOTE: che.workspace.auto_start is set to false for rh-che deployment, not sure if it is expected but IMO if user press Open in IDE button workspace should be started in anycase (the property should only handle the case of direct opening of the workspace URL e.g from bookmark ).

IMO "Open in IDE" should start workspace in any case regardless of the che.workspace.auto_start property if we are planning to leave dashboard on osio

[ghost]

Has @ashumilova had her say already?

[ibuziuk]

after thinking more about the problem I now started to doubt why che.workspace.auto_start is needed at all in Che 6 (e.g. which usecase are we trying to handle with it). Please, comment in redhat-developer/rh-che#629 (comment)
if there are some concerns I'm missing

[ibuziuk]

Closing as outdated