dev: Command to force IDE ExtHost to crash

Signed-off-by: nkomonen-amazon <[email protected]>

Author: nkomonen-amazon

packages/amazonq/src/extensionNode.ts

@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ async function setupDevMode(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
             'deleteSsoConnections',
             'expireSsoConnections',
             'editAuthConnections',
+            'forceIdeCrash',
         ],
     }
 

packages/core/src/dev/activation.ts

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ export type DevFunction =
     | 'deleteSsoConnections'
     | 'expireSsoConnections'
     | 'editAuthConnections'
+    | 'forceIdeCrash'
 
 export type DevOptions = {
     context: vscode.ExtensionContext
@@ -105,6 +106,11 @@ const menuOptions: Record<DevFunction, MenuOption> = {
         detail: 'Opens editor to all Auth Connections the extension is using.',
         executor: editSsoConnections,
     },
+    forceIdeCrash: {
+        label: 'Crash: Force IDE ExtHost Crash',
+        detail: `Will SIGKILL ExtHost with pid, ${process.pid}, but IDE will not crash itself.`,
+        executor: forceQuitIde,
+    },
 }
 
 /**
@@ -435,6 +441,15 @@ async function expireSsoConnections() {
     )
 }
 
+export function forceQuitIde() {
+    // This current process is the ExtHost. Killing it will cause all the extensions to crash
+    // for the specific IDE instance.
+    // The PPID does not seem to be the IDE instance but the root VS Code process, killing
+    // this crashes all VS Code instances.
+    const vsCodePid = process.pid
+    process.kill(vsCodePid, 'SIGKILL') // SIGTERM would be the graceful shutdown
+}
+
 async function showState(path: string) {
     const uri = vscode.Uri.parse(`aws-dev2://state/${path}-${targetContext.extension.id}`)
     const doc = await vscode.workspace.openTextDocument(uri)