DTDL Editor for Visual Studio Code

🎉 Exciting Update: Our VSCode extension now offers expanded DTDL v3 support!

We are incredibly delighted to announce the latest update to our VSCode extension. Not only does our enhanced release now fully support the DTDL V3 context, but it also boasts improved Intellisense for V3 language extensions.

This comprehensive support includes crucial features such as historization, overriding, annotations, and quantitativeTypes, making our product more robust and versatile for your diverse developing needs.

Don't wait any longer! Dive in and discover the expanded functionality that our updated VSCode extension has to offer. Stay tuned to our repository for upcoming updates. We always welcome your invaluable insights and feedback for continued improvements.

Happy coding to all!🚀

Overview

The Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) is a language for describing models for Plug and Play devices, device digital twins, and logical digital twins. Broadly, modeling enables IoT solutions to provision, use, and configure digital twins of all kinds from multiple sources in a single solution. Using DTDL to describe any digital twin’s abilities enables the IoT platform and IoT solutions to leverage the semantics of each digital twin.

With the DTDL extension for Visual Studio Code , you can read and write documents using DTDL more efficiently taking full advantage of the following key features:

• Create interfaces from the command palette with predefined or customized templates.
• Intellisense to help you with the language syntax (including auto-completion).
• Use predefined code snippets to develop DTDL efficiently.
• Syntax validation.

Get Started

Create Interface

You could use the command palette to create interface from predefined or customized templates.

• In Visual Studio Code, select View > Command Palette to open the VS Code command palette.
• In the command palette, enter and run the command DTDL: Create Interface.
• Follow the instruction to assign the interface name.
• If there are multiple templates existing, choose a template you need. Otherwise, the extension will the basic template as default.
• A JSON file will be created in the current folder. The file name is based on the interface name you assigned.
• The @id is the path component of the Digital Twin Model Identifier (DTMI). You should modify the @id following the DTMI rule to uniquely identify the device model.

Intellisense and Syntax validation

This extension could help you with the language syntax (including auto-completion) and also validate the syntax with DTDL.

Use Predefined Code Snippets

Besides the basic auto completion, this extension also provides some predefined code snippets to help you develop DTDL efficiently.

Code Snippet	Description
dtt	Code snippet of telemetry
dtp	Code snippet of property
dtc	Code snippet of command

Create Your Own Template

Prepare your template file

You could use any DTDL file as a template to develop efficiently. Meanwhile, you could also use these predefined tags to make your template more flexible.

• {modelId}: The extention will replace this tag with dtmi:com:example:interface_name;1 when creating a new DTDL from a template. For example, if you assigned the interface name as "test", the result will be dtmi:com:example:test;1.
• {modelName}: The extension will replace this tag with the interface name when creating a new DTDL from a template.

Import your template file

• Go to [extension installation location]/vsciot-vscode.vscode-dtdl-[extension release version]/templates
• Store your template into this folder as a JSON file. Keep the file name short and meaningful, because the extension will use the file name as template name.

Create Your Own Code Snippets

If you would like to create customized code snippets for VS Code, you could follow Snippets in Visual Studio Code

Contribute Your Templates and Code Snippets to the Community

You could also contribute your templates and code snippets to the DTDL repository.

• Uploading the new templates to templates folder.
• Modifying and adding new code snippets to snippets/snippets.json file.

Once the pull request is approved, your templates and code snippets will be released with next release of DTDL extension.

Commands

Command	Description
DTDL: Create Interface...	Create new interface from predefined or customized templates.

Trouble Shooting

Error when creating the interface

As default, the extension will get the available templates from [extension installation location]/vsciot-vscode.vscode-dtdl-[extension release version]/templates. But if you delete this folder or all templates files in this folder, you will have an error when creating the interface. In order to fix this issue, you could copy the templates from DTDL repository to your local templates folder manually.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information please see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Contact Us

If you would like to help to build the best IoT experience with IoT Plug and Play, you can reach us directly at Gitter.

Telemetry

VS Code collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. If you don’t wish to send usage data to Microsoft, you can set the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting to false. Learn more in our FAQ.

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