Unable to connect with expired IDE

[ericpaulsen]

when i first try to connect to a workspace using the gateway plugin, I'm returned this error:

Could not get host jstack: 

Details:
An error occurred while executing command: 'get-jstack --ide-path=/home/coder/.cache/JetBrains/RemoteDev/dist/36e40bdbd952a_ideaIU-2022.2.4 --project-path=/home/coder'
Exit code: 1

upon clicking Retry, the connection is successfully established.

[fioan89]

This sounds awfully similar to #128 which I could have not reproduce it. @ericpaulsen @bpmct from what templates were your workspaces created from?

[bpmct]

Eric is still running into this

[code-asher]

If I recall correctly the logs were saying "This IDE build has expired. Please download a new build from JetBrains official site". I am not exactly sure what the perfect solution here is but at the very least being presented with the option to download the new build would be nice.

The problem is that it seems this error appears in the logs, but is never thrown in the code, so we never see it. That means we either have to check the log output which seems janky, or check for expired builds before connecting to them.

Or, it could be that there is some other property on the host status we are meant to check.

[matifali]

JetBrains Gateway expires the IDE backends, at least for EAP versions, after a specific duration, and that causes this error.
related discussions: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/10898451233682-Remote-development-SSH-connection

[matifali]

We have added a flag latest=true since version v1.0.28 of the JetBrains Gateway module that always downloads the latest IDE backend.

[code-asher]

We may still want to do something here, because I think it only downloads the latest if you launch from the dashboard again right? If you launch from the recent connections window of Gateway for example it will use the currently installed version. It does ask if you want to update, but if you decline or have updates disabled then it will fail without any obvious error.

But, this might be something better to raise upstream with JetBrains anyway.

[matifali]

We have started working on the ToolBox integration and going forward I don't think gateway will receive much support.

I will bring this up with gateway team if it comes from any users.

[code-asher]

Yup that is fair. Hopefully Toolbox handles expired IDEs more gracefully!