web extensions don't provide all properties

[akosyakov]

It blocks installing such extensions in VS Code version of Gitpod: gitpod-io/gitpod#3257 (comment)

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code.WebResource and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code.WebExtension should be supported. If such information is indexed then we should reindex existing extensions.

[oxy]

Hey, we experienced similar issues when testing the Vim extension with code-server; here's a few notes:

So, VSCode, for Web extensions, appears to always fetch files directly from the extension gallery CDN (as far as I can tell). This presents two issues: exposing the extra files via the search API and serviing them via the CDN, and also maintaining old versions.

I'm not sure if Open-VSX internally stores old versions - from my tests with querying the service URL, it only appears to return the latest version. Not having past versions can cause issues where the serve has not updated to the newer version, but the client cannot find the old version on the extension gallery.

[spoenemann]

I'm planning to work on this within this or next month.