How to Remove the VSCode Testing Plugin from Theia?

[Yahud100]

Hi Team,

I am currently using Theia and need help removing the VSCode Testing Plugin from my environment. Despite my attempts, I haven’t been able to find a way to fully remove or disable this internal plugin.

Specifically:

How do I remove the VSCode Testing Plugin from Theia?
Are there steps to disable internal plugins in Theia that come preconfigured, like the VSCode Testing Plugin?

Thanks in advance for your support!

[msujew]

Hey @Yahud100,

Can you give a bit more context? What is the VSCode Testing Plugin you're talking about? Are you using the TheiaIDE or building your own app?

[Yahud100]

i am aiming to remove this from my project , could you please tell me , how its achievable

[msujew]

The test view doesn't come from a plugin, but is part of the VS Code testing API, which plugins can use to provide testing features to Theia/VSCode.

You can use the contribution filter API to filter out any contribution that you don't want included in your application. More specifically, you probably want to exclude this contribution:

theia/packages/test/src/browser/view/test-view-contribution.ts

Lines 137 to 139 in 998bf47

	@injectable()
	export class TestViewContribution extends AbstractViewContribution<TestTreeWidget> implements
	FrontendApplicationContribution, TabBarToolbarContribution {

[Yahud100]

thanks for the quick reply ,
i have tried this but unable to remove it
below is my code

import { injectable } from "@theia/core/shared/inversify";
import { FilterContribution, ContributionFilterRegistry } from '@theia/core/lib/common';
import {TestViewContribution} from '@theia/test/lib/browser/view/test-view-contribution'
// import { AbstractViewContribution } from "@theia/core/lib/browser";
@injectable()
export class TestFilterContribution implements FilterContribution {

    registerContributionFilters(registry: ContributionFilterRegistry): void {
        registry.addFilters(["*"], [
            contrib => !(contrib instanceof TestViewContribution)
        ]);
    }
}


    bind(FilterContribution).to(TestFilterContribution).inSingletonScope();

i have tried with AbstractViewContribution in place of * like this,
registry.addFilters([AbstractViewContribution]

but not succeeded, is there any mistack i have done? please guide me.

[msujew]

No, that seems about to be correct. If you were to close the Testing view yourself, can you reopen it somehow? In the end, all the contribution filters are doing is to prevent the TestViewContribution from registering any commands, menus, etc. making it impossible to open the view. However, if the view is already open (i.e. from your last workspace), it will continue to work as expected.

I just tried it out, and while the contribution cannot remove the view after it was added to the layout, removing the view manually makes it impossible to add it again.

[JonasHelming]

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