copilot examples to experiment in vscode

copilot-examples-vscode.md

Copilot demo

Download spring-petclinic

• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic

Q&A with copilot

• open VetController
• type // q: What is the difference between the two methods above?

Chat to add a further controller method with XML payload

• open VetController
• type command + i
• type implement a method to return data in xml format

Suggest a further method implementation

• open WelcomeController
• type @GET.... /info
• change return value to welcome
• rerun application and call endpoint /info

Add furher method to get phone number

• open WelcomeController
• type command + i
• type erstelle eine methode um telefonnummern entgegen zu nehmen

Check phone number with regex

• open WelcomeController
• type command + i
• type füge ein regex hinzu um nur rufnummer als format +49 123 4567890 zu akzeptieren

create test for phone number method

• open WelcomeController
• type command + i
• type create 3 tests for selected method in test class

add a new data table (and generate testdata)

• open schema.sql in h2 folder
• type command + i
• type erstelle eine tabelle zur pflege von einer digitalen patientenakte je haustier und füge an dieser Stelle in der datei ein
• additionally type INSERT... below to generate test data for the new table. Copy it finally to to data.sql

scaffold a soap web service with an apache library

• open copilot chat
• type @workspace /new scaffold a WS soap service call to fetch the current whether from the city ESSEN in Germany. And use an Apache library to implement the request.

review code and improve it

• open BaseEntity
• mark the last method below
• open chat
• type review marked code and provide more modern ways to implement such method