Feature request: Show properties for object

[fflaten]

Awesome extension Tyler! 👏

Would it be possible to show properties for objects?

In the vscode api proposal issue they showed inline demo like varname = object { prop: value, anotherProp : array[2] }. Maybe we could show the default string-output format for pscustomobjects (ex output of "$((dir)[0] | select *)")

Or make inline-value show the referenced property-value. Currently shows variable "var" even if line only uses $var.SomeProp

[TylerLeonhardt]

This is a hard one because although varname = object { prop: value, anotherProp : array[2] } looks nice, one with 50 properties might not look as nice.

@weinand what do you think about this? I imagine there is a generic ask here since it would apply to any inline value variable lookup usages.

[fflaten]

I agree with the length-issue for big objects. Just mentioned the @{Param=Value1;Param2=Value2} style since an equivalent in js was part of the api issue. Would probably get truncated too often to be useful, but maybe the someone will find a clever way to solve this in general for all languages.

That's why the second proposal was added since that might be more realistic in the near future. Maybe we can use InlineValueEvaluatableExpression for instances where accessing a property is detected?

[fflaten]

Expression works for properties. Tested with a hardcoded pattern as PoC.

const rng = new vscode.Range(6, 10, 6, 28);
allValues.push(new vscode.InlineValueEvaluatableExpression(rng, '$files[0].FullName'));

[TylerLeonhardt]

Interesting... I guess we could support properties. That would be pretty nice!