zowe-explorer-api's IApiRegisterClient.onProfilesUpdate() does not fire when credentials are updated

[FrankSu1996]

when registering a listener to IApiRegisterClient.onProfilesUpdate(), updating credentials that are securely stored does not fire the EventTypes.UPDATE event.

Expected behavior

As updating credentials is modifying the profile attributes, expect to see the console.log(). However, nothing happens. onProfilesUpdate(e) is never hit when setting a breakpoint inside

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Zowe Explorer Version: zowe-explorer-api 2.15.2
• (Optional) Zowe CLI Version:
• (Optional) Are you using Secure Credential Store?

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[rudyflores]

Related to #2546 and zowe/zowe-cli#1987

[traeok]

Hi @FrankSu1996,

I just wanted to ask some clarifying questions on this issue before we look into a resolution:

1. Are the credentials being updated within Zowe Explorer or the extender? Or does the credential update occur from outside of VS Code?
2. Have you experienced this behavior (or lack thereof) with the onProfilesUpdate event in previous API versions? We are checking whether the event has behaved this way in earlier versions, or if a regression was recently introduced.

Thanks!

[FrankSu1996]

Sorry, never saw your questions before.

1. It seems to happen almost 100% of the time when using the ZE manage profile action to update credentials. Using our extender, sometimes it fires, and other times it doesn't. I have noticed it tends to fire when user/password isn't already defined in our service profile, or the base profile. If it is already defined, then even from our extender, the onProfilesUpdate also will not fire. Note that our extender ultimately calls the same ProfileInfo.updateProperty() as ZE does to update credentials.

2. We only started trying onProfilesUpdate with 2.15.2. The problem still persists in 2.16.0