Convert Intellij Live Template to vscode Snippet
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If you are in the need of converting your custom intellij live tempate, you can use this method to transform it.
Locate the template file
The first thing you need to is is to locate the template file. You can find it inside the intellij settings directory which is vary per operating system. See this documentation to locate it.
For example for my golang templte in linux, I find it under
1/home/username/.config/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2020.1/jba_config/templates/Golang.xml
Convert it into vscode snippet
You can use tihs gocode
1package main
2
3import (
4 "encoding/json"
5 "encoding/xml"
6 "fmt"
7 "io/ioutil"
8 "log"
9 "os"
10 "regexp"
11 "strings"
12)
13
14type TemplateSet struct {
15 XMLName xml.Name `xml:"templateSet"`
16 Text string `xml:",chardata"`
17 Group string `xml:"group,attr"`
18 Template []ideaTemplate `xml:"template"`
19}
20
21type ideaTemplate struct {
22 Text string `xml:",chardata"`
23 Name string `xml:"name,attr"`
24 Value string `xml:"value,attr"`
25 Description string `xml:"description,attr"`
26 ToReformat string `xml:"toReformat,attr"`
27 ToShortenFQNames string `xml:"toShortenFQNames,attr"`
28 Variable []struct {
29 Text string `xml:",chardata"`
30 Name string `xml:"name,attr"`
31 Expression string `xml:"expression,attr"`
32 DefaultValue string `xml:"defaultValue,attr"`
33 AlwaysStopAt string `xml:"alwaysStopAt,attr"`
34 } `xml:"variable"`
35 Context struct {
36 Text string `xml:",chardata"`
37 Option struct {
38 Text string `xml:",chardata"`
39 Name string `xml:"name,attr"`
40 Value string `xml:"value,attr"`
41 } `xml:"option"`
42 } `xml:"context"`
43}
44
45// "Print to console": {
46// "prefix": "log",
47// "body": [
48// "console.log('$1');",
49// "$2"
50// ],
51// "description": "Log output to console"
52// }
53
54type snippet struct {
55 Prefix string `json:"prefix,omitempty"`
56 Body []string `json:"body,omitempty"`
57 Description string `json:"description,omitempty"`
58}
59
60func main() {
61 f, err := os.Open("Golang.xml")
62 if err != nil {
63 log.Fatal(err)
64 }
65
66 defer f.Close()
67
68 raw, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
69 if err != nil {
70 log.Fatal(err)
71 }
72
73 var ts TemplateSet
74 xml.Unmarshal(raw, &ts)
75
76 snippets := map[string]snippet{}
77 for i, t := range ts.Template {
78 s := snippet{
79 Prefix: t.Name,
80 Body: getBody(t),
81 Description: t.Description,
82 }
83 if _, ok := snippets[t.Description]; ok {
84 log.Fatalf("duplicate key %d:%s %s", i, t.Description, t.Name)
85 }
86 snippets[t.Description] = s
87 }
88
89 raw, err = json.MarshalIndent(snippets, "", "\t")
90 if err != nil {
91 log.Fatal(err)
92 }
93 fmt.Printf("%s", raw)
94}
95
96var (
97 rx = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\w+\$`)
98)
99
100func getBody(t ideaTemplate) []string {
101 s := t.Value
102
103 params := map[string]string{}
104 match := rx.FindAllString(s, -1)
105 varIdx := 1
106
107MATCH:
108 for _, v := range match {
109 if _, ok := params[v]; ok {
110 // already process the parameter
111 continue
112 }
113 varname := strings.ReplaceAll(v, "$", "")
114
115 for _, ideaVar := range t.Variable {
116 if ideaVar.Name == varname {
117 defaultValue := ideaVar.DefaultValue
118 if defaultValue != "" {
119 // process default
120 replacement := fmt.Sprintf("${%d:another}", varIdx)
121 varIdx++
122 params[v] = replacement
123 continue MATCH
124 }
125
126 // no variable found
127 replacement := fmt.Sprintf("$%d", varIdx)
128 varIdx++
129 params[v] = replacement
130 }
131 }
132
133 }
134
135 // replace all parameters
136 for varname, p := range params {
137 s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, varname, p)
138 }
139 s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "$END$", "")
140
141 return strings.Split(s, "\n")
142}
Copy the output of the file. On vscode, Ctrl+p to bring the command and search for Configure User Snippet. Chose the language and then paste it.