Restore access to deprecated editors

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

Prerequisites

An active kubectl session with administrative permissions to the Kubernetes cluster. See Overview of kubectl.
jq. See Downloading jq.

Procedure

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

kubectl exec deploy/che-dashboard -n eclipse-che  \
    -- 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:

kubectl edit checluster/eclipse-che -n eclipse-che

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

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