How to get settings.json content from vscode api extension

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I am building a vscode extension, where i needed the content of settings.json file. I tried the below one to get a specific value like colorTheme,

const workSpaceConfig = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration("editor"); console.log(workSpaceConfig.get("fontSize")); // which returns 14

What if want the whole content which is in settings.json, like the below.

Settings.json (Example),

{ "workbench.colorTheme": "Quiet Light", "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme", "editor.fontSize": 14, "editor.formatOnSave": true, ... }

How are you going to use them? What form do they need to be in? — Mark
– Mark, Commented Sep 8, 2021 at 16:54
Most extensions consume each of the settings they are interested in one by one. If you simply want the whole JSON file content, read it from the workspace folder. In short, the whole content is useless as the hierarchical configuration system has settings in other files as well. — Lex Li
– Lex Li, Commented Sep 8, 2021 at 18:47

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-30 01:14:26Z

This might get you started, although it is unclear how you plan to use the returned information.

 let all = await vscode.workspace.getConfiguration(); let allAsJSON = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(all)); // the key line const editorSettings = allAsJSON.editor; // ==> // { // tabSize: 2, // fontSize: 12, // insertSpaces: true, // detectIndentation: false, // trimAutoWhitespace: true, // largeFileOptimizations: true, // semanticHighlighting: { // enabled: "configuredByTheme", // }, // <etc.> // } const editorFontSizeSetting = editorSettings.fontSize; // 14 // all["editor"].fontSize ==> 14 // this also works

The alternative is to find the settings.json file, JSON.parse() it.

As @LexLi intimated in his comment, user settings can be overridden by workplace settings for example.

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