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Prompt

Asks the user for a list of settings that will be applied to one or more other targets.

The following example lets the user input an username and password and writes these values to user and password settings of FTP server template.

{
    "deploy.reloaded": {
        "targets": [
            {
                "type": "prompt",
                "name": "FTP server",

                "prompts": [
                    {
                        "text": "Please enter your username",

                        "properties": [ "user" ],
                        "defaultValue": "/my_package_files"
                    },
                    
                    {
                        "placeHolder": "Please enter the password for '${user}'",
                        
                        "isPassword": true,
                        "properties": [ "password" ]
                    }
                ],
                
                "targets": [ "FTP server template" ]
            },
            
            {
                "name": "FTP server template",
                "type": "ftp",
                
                "isHidden": true,

                "user": "<NO NEED TO SET: This is done by 1st prompt of 'FTP server' target>",
                "password": "<NO NEED TO SET: This is done by 2nd prompt of 'FTP server' target>"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Name	Description
prompts*	One or more prompt entry. This can also be a string, which contains a path or URI from where to download the entries from (relative and local paths will be mapped to your home directory (.vscode-deploy-reloaded sub folder) or the .vscode folder).
targets	One or more target name to deploy to.

^{* supports placeholders}

Prompts

Name	Description
ignoreFocusOut	Set to (true) to keep the input box open when focus moves to another part of the editor or to another window. Default: (true)
isPassword	Input value is secret / a password. Default: (false)
placeHolder*	The placeholder for the input box.
properties	A list of one or more property names inside the target where to write the value to.
type*	The value type.
text*	The text for the input box.

^{* supports placeholders}

Types

Name	Description
bool, boolean	Convert to a boolean value. Possible value for (true) are: 1, true, yes or y; possible value for (false) are: 0, false, no or n.
file	Loads data from a file and parses it as JSON string.
float, number	Convert to a number / float value.
int, integer	Convert to an integer value.
json, object, obj	Parses a value as JSON string.
str, string	Does no conversion.