IDE Support

Oso’s IDE (Integrated Development Environment) integrations provide syntax highlighting for .polar files. Additionally, our Visual Studio Code extension will display diagnostics (errors & warnings) from your Oso policy in-line in the editor and in VS Code’s Problems pane.

Supported IDEs

Visual Studio Code

Features

• Syntax highlighting.
• Diagnostics (errors & warnings) from your Oso policy are displayed in-line in the editor and in VS Code’s Problems pane.
  • The extension immediately highlights errors and warnings encountered while parsing and validating your policy, such as if a rule is missing a trailing semi-colon, a resource block declares "owner" as both a role and a relation, or your policy contains no allow() rule. You would normally see this feedback when running your application, but the extension surfaces it while you edit your policy.

Configuration

Configuring which Polar files are treated as part of the same policy

By default, the extension assumes that each VS Code workspace folder contains a separate Oso policy. On startup, the extension searches each workspace folder for .polar files and treats all files it finds in a particular workspace folder as part of the same policy.

This can sometimes lead to the extension having an incorrect view of a policy. For example, if a workspace folder contains src/ and dist/ directories that contain duplicate copies of the same Polar files, by default the extension will treat the duplicates as part of the same policy. Or if a workspace folder contains two separate projects with separate policies, microservice-a/ and microservice-b/, we don’t want the extension to treat all of those Polar files as parts of a whole.

The oso.polarLanguageServer.projectRoots VS Code configuration property can be used to customize the extension’s view of the various Oso policies in a particular workspace folder. It accepts a list of relative, POSIX-style paths that indicate the Oso ‘project roots’ present in a particular workspace folder.

For the first example above, the following configuration includes Polar files in the src/ directory and ignores those in the dist/ directory:

{
  "oso.polarLanguageServer.projectRoots": [
    "./src"
  ]
}

For the second example above, the following configuration specifies that microservice-a and microservice-b contain two separate Oso policies:

{
  "oso.polarLanguageServer.projectRoots": [
    "./microservice-a",
    "./microservice-b"
  ]
}

Vim

Features

• Syntax highlighting.

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