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Bob Foreman
Bob Foreman

Reputation: 254

Migration Tips moving from ECL IDE to VSCode

I have been using the Windows based ECL IDE for 11 years, but would now like to migrate to using the Visual Studio Code with the ECL extension. Is there any available documentation, or can you share any migration tips and best practices? Thanks!

I have been to the marketplace web page text but perhaps a clear step-by-step list of installation steps would be great.

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Answers (1)

Bob Foreman
Bob Foreman

Reputation: 254

I found this useful information from another ECL developer using VSCode:

Getting Started with Visual Studio Code Editor and ECL

  1. Locate and install the appropriate ECL Client Tools version from hpccsystems.com

  2. Install VSCode if you haven’t yet done so. You can install to Windows, Linux, or Mac platforms. Here is the link:

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

For Windows 10, I used the 64-bit Users Install for Windows.

  1. In VSCode, open the command palette (ctrl+shift+p) and select Install Extension. Enter "ecl" to filter the available extensions and choose ecl.

HPCC Cluster Configuration

  1. Click on Debug Icon in VSCode (located on the Side Bar)
  2. File > Add Folder to Workspace – Add "My Files" folder: (C:\Users\Public\Documents\HPCC Systems\ECL\My Files)
  3. Click on Gear Icon near top (Configure or Fix launch.json). If asked, select the ECL environment.
  4. Modify configuration as follows:

VSCode will supply a default profile for ECL and the users can manually modify the following as needed: Example:

        "name": "play.hpccsystems.com",
        "type": "ecl",
        "request": "launch",
        "protocol": "https",
        "serverAddress": "play.hpccsystems.com",
        "port": 18010,
        "targetCluster": "thor",
        "rejectUnauthorized": false,
        "resultLimit": 100,
        "timeoutSecs": 60,
        "user": "Bob",
        "password": "(IfNeeded)"
  1. Save your changes (File > Save)

Running your first ECL file

  1. Open a test ECL file – (Example – Hello.ecl)
  2. Click on the arrow in the upper right of the editor to compile/run the ECL file
  3. To see the output, look at the Output tab in the Panel view below the editor.

Happy Coding!

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