Vscode-remote-release: Support ${remoteWorkspaceFolder} in devcontainer.json

[felipecrs]

Provide a way to reference VS Code variables in Remote Containers devcontainer.json containerEnv and remoteEnv. Such as:

"containerEnv": { 
  "WORKSPACE_FOLDER": "${variable:workspaceFolder}" 
}

[chrmarti]

There is ${localWorkspaceFolder}, does that help?

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[felipecrs]

@chrmarti ${localWorkspaceFolder} resolves the host path for the workspace. I need the path in the remote container.

In my use case we have a "bin" folder, with executables, and wanted it to be part of an environment variable.

I made a trick using the postCreateCommand to make it work.

"postCreateCommand": "pip install -r virtualenv/requirements.txt; echo \"export PYTHONPATH=\"$(pwd):$(pwd)/pyplumbing\"\" >> \"$HOME/.bashrc\""

[chrmarti]

@felipecassiors Makes sense. (Thought we had this request somewhere, but can't find it anymore.)

[felipecrs]

Closed erroneously.

Do you think it might be useful to support other VS Code variables as well? I pointed it when opening the issue, but now I'm not sure if it is useful or not, but can possibly open opportunities for people exploring devcontainer.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/variables-reference

[chrmarti]

Adding containerWorkspaceFolder, localWorkspaceFolderBasename and containerWorkspaceFolderBasename as per https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/2697#issuecomment-609854675.