How to reuse another extension features?

[MarcinVaadin]

Hi! I am developing an extension that should be aware of current Maven / Gradle project structure (module roots, sources roots, resources roots). I see that vscode-maven does the project structure analysis already.

Is it possible to call classes / utilities (like MavenProjectManager) from that extension in my extension?

[alefragnani]

Hi @MarcinVaadin ,

There are two ways you can interact with / use another extension feature:

Using its commands

The simpler, but also limited way is using its commands. You can run any registered command, from other extensions or native in VS Code, using the commands.executeCommand API. Something like:

    await commands.executeCommand("editor.action.clipboardCopyAction");

This approach doesn't require any changes on the original extension

Using exposed APIs

The more professional way is using APIs that the extension has exposed. This documentation provides more information: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#extensions about the process.

In this case, you would need to get in touch with the maintainers of the MavenProjectManager extension, to ask for APIs that fulfill your needs.

Hope this helps

[MarcinVaadin]

Thank you, I think in that case both are not available. I will create feature request on vscode-maven.