DevPod quick launch http shortcut more prefill options about devpod

[shanman190]

source was the parameter that I found to put the URL in that would result in the repository being passed in.

[martinbiard]

@pascalbreuninger

You're right, it's working. I took your urls and carefully recreated mine and both worked. I'm working on a private repo so I can't share exact links but those are the formats that worked:

devpod://[email protected]:my-org/my-repo.git&workspace=my-workspace&provider=docker&ide=vscode
https://devpod.sh/open#[email protected]:my-org/my-repo.git&workspace=my-workspace&provider=docker&ide=vscode

I'm not yet using the prebuild feature, but is there a parameter to pass this value into the urls as well?

Another thing I noticed, is that prefilling the workspace input with the above urls works as long as devpod is already running. When devpod is not running, then the links will open devpod to the workspaces list section in the app, but not to the prefilled create workspace page.

[pascalbreuninger]

@martinbiard

I'm not yet using the prebuild feature, but is there a parameter to pass this value into the urls as well?

Not a URL parameter but it's available as a customization in the devcontainer.json

"customizations": {
  "devpod": {
      "prebuildRepository": "ghcr.io/my-org/my-repo"
  }
}

[pascalbreuninger]

Hey @martinbiard, thanks for opening the issue.
The current format for deeplinks is documented here, the only difference when relaying through devpod.sh/open is that you can omit the source parameter name. The rest works the same.
The deeplink
devpod://open?source=your-url-encoded-source&workspace=my-workspace&provider=docker&ide=vscode
becomes
https://devpod.sh/open#your-url-encoded-source&workspace=my-workspace&provider=docker&ide=vscode

Another neat trick is to just omit the source for github based repos, devpod.sh figures it out via the referrer header

As for the popup, that looks weird indeed, I'm wondering what windows is up to this time 🙃 it's not reproducible on linux or macOS for me

[martinbiard]

Thanks @pascalbreuninger

Yes, those are the links I tried, but I have these issues:

• The devpod:// url scheme does not work at all, I can paste it in chrome and chrome asks if I want to open it with devpod but if I accept, it never makes it to the devpod app (not sure how to debug this further).
• The https url scheme going through the devpod.sh website works better, it will actually bring up devpod and prefill the source with my github repo url. However, as mentioned in my original post, it won't prefill anything else even though I'm passing them as parameters (workspace, provider, ide).

[pascalbreuninger]

@martinbiard I can't repro this on macOS, maybe it's a windows issue - we'll look into it.
Could you paste the updated url you're trying it with here please?