Converting segments from json to bicep

[Willem-J-an]

When I'm editing bicep templates, I often look at what the Azure Portal API's are doing, extract the json and dump it in my bicep template.

Manually converting json to bicep is quite a big pain, so I cobbled together this command to convert a selection in neovim editor from json to bicep, by removing quotes, converting, escaping quotes, removing comma's, et cetera 😄

Not sure if there is a better way for this, but it seems to do the job so far!

'<,'>s/\v( *)"(.+)":(.*)/\1\2:\3/g | '<,'>s/\v(.+),/\1/g | '<,'>s/\v"/`!`!`/g | '<,'>s/\v'/\\'/g | '<,'>s/\v`!`!`/'/g

Would be cool to have this operation as a code action served by the LSP. So I select some json that I pasted in my bicep file and trigger a kind of best effort conversion to bicep syntax.

[brwilkinson]

In vscode there is a capability that you can use. "Paste JSON as Bicep"

So long as the clipboard contains well formed json, then it works.

Often it just takes wrapping it in {} or [] if it was not well formed, depending on what you copied.

Just use the command pallette E.g. F1 or whatever shortcut you have mapped, then type "bicep: paste" it should show up.

[brwilkinson]

Another useful tool is. "bicep: insert resource" which takes a full resourceid of any resource that is already deployed. Then it pastes the Bicep into the file/editor.

[Willem-J-an]

I looked into it and seems like that feature is what I need, but I'm not using VS code. It appears that this feature is executed by the language server, so I can probably configure the command from my client in the same way it is done in VS code. Shouldn't be too difficult 😁

Thanks for the pointer

[brwilkinson]

oh which IDE/Editor are you using ?

[Willem-J-an]

Neovim 😁

[brwilkinson]

I think we have some docs floating around ...

Okay we link this from the bicep home README page...

#1141 (comment)

Not sure i that is helpful ?

[Willem-J-an]

Yea I already have the lsp integration working; it is available through the regular neovim ways of working for this. It's added here https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/lua/lspconfig/server_configurations/bicep.lua
It is possible to send commands to the language server, but I would need to configure what those commands are on my side. I guess probably nobody went that far yet for neovim.

[Willem-J-an]

@brwilkinson Feels like I'm close; do you see anything very clearly wrong on what I"m doing here? The error is not very insightful at this point. 😄

[DEBUG][2023-06-23 14:37:39] .../vim/lsp/rpc.lua:258	"rpc.send"	{  id = 3,  jsonrpc = "2.0",  method = "workspace/executeCommand",  params = {    arguments = {      bicepContent = "param workbook_display_name string\nparam workbook_content object\nparam application_insights_resource_id string\n   \nresource workbookId_resource 'microsoft.insights/workbooks@2021-03-08' = {\n  name: guid(workbook_display_name)\n  location: resourceGroup().location\n  kind: 'shared'\n  properties: {\n    version: 'Notebook/1.0'\n    displayName: workbook_display_name\n    serializedData: string(workbook_content)\n    sourceId: application_insights_resource_id\n    category: 'workbook'\n  }\n  dependsOn: []\n}",      jsonContent = '{\n                            "inputs": {\n                                "statusCode": 403\n                            },\n                            "kind": "Http",\n                            "runAfter": {},\n                            "type": "Response"\n                        }\n',      queryCanPaste = false,      rangeLength = 0,      rangeOffset = 112,      uri = "file://home/willem/code/DataPlatform/dataplatform/shared/bicep-modules/workbook.bicep"    },    command = "decompileForPaste"  }}
[DEBUG][2023-06-23 14:37:39] .../vim/lsp/rpc.lua:361	"rpc.receive"	{  error = {    code = -32603,    message = "Internal Error"  },  id = 3,  jsonrpc = "2.0"}