Update automatically settings.json with ansys-mechanical-autocomplete

[klmcadams]

📝 Description of the feature

Find the user or workspace settings.json folder, read settings.json, and append the stubs autocomplete settings to it

💡 Steps for implementing the feature

For updating the user settings.json:

@click.option(
    "--settings_location",
    default="user",
    type=str,
    help="Whether to update the settings.json file on the workspace or user level.",
)

if settings_location == "user":
    if "win" in sys.platform:
            settings_json = Path(os.environ.get("APPDATA")) / "Code" / "User" / "settings.json"
    elif "lin" in sys.platform:
        settings_json = (
            Path(os.environ.get("HOME")) / ".config" / "Code" / "User" / "settings.json"
        )

    ### settings_json_data code 

    # Combine the existing JSON with the autocomplete paths
    combined_dict = {**data, **settings_json_data}

    # Write the updated data back to the file
    with open(settings_json, "w") as file:
        json.dump(combined_dict, file, indent=4)

Unsure how to update workspace settings.json

• Look for root pymechanical folder and search for .vscode/settings.json
• Or, use javascript and the VSCode API to retrieve the workspace folder(s) - command line input may require the user to include the name of the workspace folder they want to update the settings in if there are multiple

🔗 Useful links and references

Find the location of settings.json for workspace folder

VSCode API workspace folder

json5 - allows trailing commas