"test" is not an allowed value for the "request" property of launch configs configurations

[weinand]

The documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/testing#_debug-tests says that a value "test" can be used for the "request" property of launch configs configurations.

Please note, that this is neither supported by VS Code nor by DAP and it will break an unknown number of assumptions and result in a bad user experience (e.g. microsoft/vscode#119903). The only supported values are "launch" and "attach".

[brettcannon]

What would the preferred way be for us to be able to denote which launch configuration is meant to be used when debugging a test when launched from our test explorer?

[weinand]

@brettcannon you can either:

• add a new property to the schema of your "python" launch config (this property is only allowed on "python" launch configs and will result in an error in launch configs of different types).
• or you could add a new independent (orthogonal) property that is allowed in all launch configs. VS Code's "serverReady" feature is a good example for how to add a property to all launch configs. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/7208128b8187d942419237855c324877d096cf43/extensions/debug-server-ready/package.json#L22-L138.