The Ant Target Runner VS Code Extension can be used to extract class annotations whenever class files are built - similar to an Eclipse (PDSOE) ANT builder, see The Annotation based Type Descriptor

The following steps describe the configuration of the ANT Target Runner Extension.

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Configuration

Settings in .vscode-workspace file:

        "ant.home": "C:\\Progress\\OpenEdge128_64\\ant",
        "ant.buildFilenames": "annotations.xml,annotations2.xml",
        "ant.executable": "ant -lib c:\\Progress\\OpenEdge128_64\\PCT\\pct.jar",
        "ant.envVarsFile": "build.env",

This sample build.auto file maps the file patterns

*BusinessEntity.cls
*Task.cls
*Service.cls
*Enum.cls
*Parameter.cls
I*.cls

In the Consultingwerk, Demo and Test packages to the ExtractClassAnnotationsVsCode target in the annotations.xml ANT script:

{
    "autoTargets": [
        {
            "filePattern": "{Consultingwerk,Demo,Test}/**/*{BusinessEntity,Task,Service,Enum,Parameter}.cls",
            "buildFile": "annotations.xml",
            "runTargets": "ExtractClassAnnotationsVsCode",
            "initialDelayMs": 1000
        },
        {
            "filePattern": "{Consultingwerk,Demo,Test}/**/I*.cls",
            "buildFile": "annotations.xml",
            "runTargets": "ExtractClassAnnotationsVsCode",
            "initialDelayMs": 1000
        }
    ]
}

Excerpt from the annotations.xml file:

    <target name="ExtractClassAnnotationsVsCode" depends="init">
        <antcall target="generate-smartframework"/>
        <antcall target="generate-smartcomponentsdemo"/>

        <echo>autoTargetTriggerFilename ${autoTargetTriggerFilename}</echo>

        <property name="absolute.path" location="${autoTargetTriggerFilename}"/>

        <extractClassAnnotations directory="."
                                 fileMask="*BusinessEntity.cls,*Task.cls,*Service.cls,I*.cls,*Enum.cls,*Parameter.cls"
                                 overwriteWriteProtected="true"
                                 excludeAnnotations="@Test,@TestIgnore,@BusinessEntityGenerator,@lowercase,@TempTableMetaInformation"
                                 verbose="true"
                                 buildFiles="${absolute.path}"
                                 assemblies="${Full.Assembly.Directory}"
                                 displayStatus="false"
                                 logMessages="true">

            <options>
                <dbconnection dbName="SmartDB" dbDir="c:/Work/SmartComponents4NET/128_64/DB/SmartDB"/>
                <dbconnection dbName="Sports2000" dbDir="c:/Work/SmartComponents4NET/128_64/DB/Sports2000"/>
            </options>

        </extractClassAnnotations>
    </target>

Full annotations.xml file:

File build/annotations.properties file

# Progress environment settings
# Only used for Class Annotation extraction 
# 
progress.DLC=C:/Progress/OpenEdge128_64
assemblies=./Assemblies

Installation in Windsurf

If the Ant Target Runner Extension is not available in extension marketplace of your VS Code derivate, you can download the extension .vsix Archive from https://open-vsx.org/extension/nickheap/vscode-ant and install the Extension using Install from VSIX tool in IDE’s like Windsurf.

VS Code - Ant Target Runner sample configuration

Configuration

Installation in Windsurf