Restore access to deprecated editors

Restore access to deprecated OpenShift Dev Spaces editors on the Dashboard to support users who need them during migration to a supported editor. By default, the Dashboard UI hides them.

Before you begin

You have an active oc session with administrative permissions to the OpenShift cluster. See This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.Getting started with the CLI.
You have jq installed. See Content from stedolan.github.io is not included.Downloading jq.

Procedure

Determine the IDs of the deprecated editors. An editor ID has the following format: publisher/name/version.

oc exec deploy/devspaces-dashboard -n openshift-devspaces  \
    -- curl -s http://localhost:8080/dashboard/api/editors | jq -r '[.[] | select(.metadata.tags != null) | select(.metadata.tags[] | contains("Deprecate")) | "\(.metadata.attributes.publisher)/\(.metadata.name)/\(.metadata.attributes.version)"]'

Edit the CheCluster Custom Resource on the cluster:

$ oc edit checluster/devspaces -n openshift-devspaces

spec:
  components:
    dashboard:
      deployment:
        containers:
        - env:
          - name: CHE_SHOW_DEPRECATED_EDITORS
            value: 'true'

Results

In the OpenShift Dev Spaces Dashboard, go to Create Workspace and verify that the deprecated editors are now visible in the editor selector.