Get selected file/folder in the explorer view

[SamVerschueren]

It would be nice if it was possible to retrieve the selected file/folder in the explorer view. The use case where I want to use it for is my vscode-yo extension to be able to run the generator in the selected directory. An API for this would be nice.

[bpasero]

@jrieken fyi

[stef-levesque]

This would be helpful for my vscode-hexdump extension, to retrieve selected file not compatible with TextDocument (i.e. png, jpg, ...). I wouldn't need to show an inputbox to ask for the file path everything :)

[riteshatsencha]

Second that. It will help us for the extension we are developing @sencha. Here is the link to Stack Overflow question on the same feature.

[TangYanxin]

Some extension need retrieve selected file/folder, such as TortoiseSVN.
If can get selected file/folder, even if not integrate SVN, also can be very convenient use SVN by contextmenu of explorer.

[jrieken]

Maybe the menus contribution we have added this summer helps anyone here. The contract is that when invoked from a resource (such as an explorer entry) its URI will be passed to the function

When a command is invoked from a (context) menu, VS Code tries to infer the currently selected resource and passes that as a parameter when invoking the command. For instance, a menu item inside the Explorer is passed the URI of the selected resource and a menu item inside an editor is passed the URI of the document.

[fbricon]

@jrieken executing a command from the menu, I get the uri as expected, except it doesn't work when that command is invoked from a KB shortcut (I get an empty parameter instead).

[jrieken]

except it doesn't work when that command is invoked from a KB shortcut

Yeah, thats the design of things as KB shortcuts are global (not contextual) by definition... It's like someone using you command-id with the executeCommand-api. The rule to always be prepared to be invoked without sufficient arguments. In those cases you need to figure them out by yourself. In this case by using an API that you don't have (yet)