Best practice for manipulating workspace on behalf of the user

Hello,

i am working on a use case where one of our services is going to produce a file and deliver it to a certain user workspace.

Ive been looking into existing to apis to accomplish something like that, I can see one way of potentially open a tty and execute a command there, but there are no examples of usage and I am not sure if that’s meant to be used for this kind of purpose. any recommendations?

Codercord•6/8/24, 10:55 AM

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**Category**

Help needed

**Product**

Coder OSS (v2)

**Platform**

Linux

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matifali•6/9/24, 6:10 AM

If I understand correctly, you want to inject a file into a running workspace of another user?

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 10:32 AM

That's correct, so they can use their file into their workspace, eg in pratical terms I give you an on demand change that you can apply in your project...

matifali•6/9/24, 10:36 AM

If you have the owner role. It should be possible with

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 10:37 AM

Yes assume the service is the owner. so it would just be a plain scp connection? Is there any API that given a workspace ID gives me the where to connect etc?

matifali•6/9/24, 10:37 AM

An owner can ssh into any workspace so scp can be used to copy any file into/from workspace

LLoopAj4x Yes assume the service is the owner. so it would just be a plain scp connection?...

matifali•6/9/24, 10:39 AM

There could be. I will try to look through the API route to see what can be used here.

matifali•6/9/24, 10:39 AM

In a few days

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 10:49 AM

matifali•6/9/24, 11:08 AM

Have you checked the API docs?

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 3:10 PM

Yes, I saw one to upload files only

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 3:10 PM

and get workspace payload didn't seem to have anything relevant

LoopAj4xOP•6/9/24, 3:10 PM

maybe there is

LLoopAj4x Hello, i am working on a use case where one of our services is going to produc...

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:01 PM

hey, as Atif mentioned there isn't currently any API for this specific action

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:01 PM

/ is probably the best way

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:01 PM

unless if you maybe could use a centralized file server and configure workspaces to connect to it

LLoopAj4x Yes assume the service is the owner. so it would just be a plain scp connection?...

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:03 PM

you need the Coder CLI to connect to a workspace (bundled with the Agent, so it will be there within your workspace)

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:04 PM

you should configure the coder-login module in your template so that the Coder CLI is automatically connected in your workspaces.

then run

coder config-ssh

coder config-ssh

to add entries to your config,
then use the respective / CLI commands

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:09 PM

the name of the SSH connection will be , so for example you can do if you own the workspace

Phorcys•6/13/24, 9:10 PM

hmm, except that won't work, doesn't seem to support adding other users' workspaces

LoopAj4xOP•6/16/24, 1:17 PM

Yes I've been considering other ways rather than ssh, probably will just have a service running inside the container etc.

matifali•6/19/24, 9:23 AM

if you can host that file on a server, you can download it within the

TitiMoby•6/24/24, 7:49 AM

If you're still looking for alternatives, depending on the file type, you can use a git repository and add a

to the

LoopAj4xOP•7/13/24, 9:59 AM

Thank you I've ended up using a pull strategy originated from a very simple vs code extension, I see the startup_script equally valid as well, thanks for your suggestion.