v3 Changes for Users and Extenders

Version 3.0.0 Changes Affecting Zowe Explorer Extenders

No longer supported

• Removed support for v1 Profiles
• Updated supported VS Code engine to 1.79.0
• Drop support for Theia IDE

Removal of deprecated APIs from Extensibility API for Zowe Explorer

• Logger type MessageSeverityEnum removed in favor of MessageSeverity.
• IUss.putContents removed in favor of IUss.putContent.
• IJes.getJobsByOwnerAndPrefix removed in favor of IJes.getJobsByParameters.
• ICommand.issueTsoCommand removed in favor of ICommand.issueTsoCommandWithParms.
• ZoweVsCodeExtension.showVsCodeMessage removed in favor of Gui.showMessage.
• ZoweVsCodeExtension.inputBox removed in favor of Gui.showInputBox.
• ZoweVsCodeExtension.promptCredentials removed in favor of ZoweVsCodeExtension.updateCredentials.
• Changed ZoweExplorerExtender.initForZowe profileTypeConfigurations: imperative.ICommandProfileTypeConfiguration[] to a required argument
• Changed IApiExplorerExtenders.initForZowe profileTypeConfigurations: imperative.ICommandProfileTypeConfiguration[] to a required argument
• Changed ICommon, IMvs, IUss, IJes interfaces to be grouped in MainframeInteraction namespace.
• Renamed WebviewOptions interface to GuiWebviewOptions and moved to GuiOptions namespace.
• Moved GuiMessageOptions interface to GuiOptions namespace.
• Moved all types to the Types interface, these types include:
  • IZoweNodeType
  • IZoweUSSNodeType
  • NodeInteraction renamed to ZoweNodeInteraction
  • IApiRegisterClient
  • WebviewUris
  • FileAttributes
  • PollRequest
  • DatasetStats
  • KeytarModule
  • DataSetAllocTemplate
  • Appender
  • LogJsConfig
• Moved MessageSeverity enum to it's own class.
• Moved IUrlValidator, IProfileValidation, IValidationSetting, ValidProfileEnum and EvenTypes to Validation namespace.
• Moved getZoweDir and getFullPath to FileManagement class.
• Renamed IUrlValidator to IValidationUrl.
• Renamed IProfileValidation to IValidationProfile.
• Renamed ValidProfileEnum to ValidationType.
• Wrapped ZosmfApiCommon, ZosmfUssApi, ZosmfMvsApi, ZosmfJesApi and ZosmfCommandApi inside ZoweExplorerZosmf namespace.
• Renamed ZosmfApiCommon to CommonApi.
• Renamed ZosmfUssApi to UssApi.
• Renamed ZosmfMvsApi to MvsApi.
• Renamed ZosmfJesApi to JesApi.
• Renamed ZosmfCommandApi to CommandApi.
• Renamed ZoweExplorerTreeApi to IZoweExplorerTreeApi.
• Moved NodeAction enum to its own class ZoweTreeNodeActions.
• Renamed NodeAction enum to ZoweTreeNodeActions.
• Wrapped all content sorting related content to be contained in Sorting namespace, such as:
  • DataSetSortOpts
  • SortDirection
  • DatasetFilterOpts
  • DatasetFilter
  • NodeSort
  • JobSortOpts
• Renamed files class to FileManagement.
• Renamed IPromptCredentials into PromptCredentials.
• Wrapped IPromptCredentialsCommonOptions, IPromptCredentialsOptions and IPromptUserPassOptions in PromptCredentialsOptions namespace.
• Renamed IPromptCredentialsCommonOptions to CommonOptions.
• Renamed IPromptcredentialsOptions to ComplexOptions.
• Renamed IPromptUserPassOptions to UserPassOptions.
• Removed ProfilesCache.getSchema(), ProfilesCache.getCliProfileManager(), ProfilesCache.saveProfile() & ProfilesCache.deleteProfileOnDisk() v1 Profiles manipulation endpoints.

New APIs Added

• ICommand.issueUnixCommand added for issuing Unix Commands
• Optional ICommand.sshProfileRequired API returning a boolean value for extenders that would like to use the ssh profile for issuing UNIX commands via Zowe Explorer.
• ProfilesCache.convertV1ProfToConfig() added for migrating v1 profiles to a global team configuration file.

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