How to enable / disable extension from API or commands

[shanalikhan]

is there any way to disable some specific extension through API ?

installExtension and uninstallExtension commands were recently added in vscode.

[ramya-rao-a]

what is your scenario?

[shanalikhan]

Settings Sync needs this. If one extension is installed in one code, it installs on second code instance on work PC.

But when user disables the extension and make a backup and when it downloads the extension it enables that extension, i need to disable it from API

Ref : shanalikhan/code-settings-sync#143

[MartinSGill]

Isn't it a bit more involved than that?

When syncing extensions you need to know every extension that's installed (regardless of disabled or not) then you need to also somehow get information on which extension is disabled for which workspace.

That way you can also sync the workspace settings, essentially providing a backup, it might even be possible to share the workspace settings across installs, e.g. if two copies of a workspace are on exactly the same path on both computers.

Just my initial thoughts on how I'd expect the sync to work.

[sandy081]

I agree with @MartinSGill with the approach. While syncing you should be able to have the information about installed, enabled, disabled extensions. This would lead to the issue of how we store some state/settings which we are doing in Local storage. It would be helpful if we are able to share this too.