Chapter 3. Configuring Visual Studio Code to use Dependency Analytics

Procedure

1. Open the Visual Studio Code application.
2. From the file menu, click View, and click Extensions.
3. Search the Marketplace for Red Hat Dependency Analytics.
4. Click the Install button to install the extension. Wait for the installation to finish.

5. To start scanning your application for security vulnerabilities, and view the vulnerability report, you can do one of the following:

   • Open a manifest file, hover over a dependency marked by the inline Component Analysis, indicated by the wavy-red line under a dependency name, click Quick Fix, and click Detailed Vulnerability Report.
   • Open a manifest file, and click the pie chart icon.
   • Right click the manifest file in the Explorer view, and click Red Hat Dependency Analytics Report…​.
   • From the vulnerability pop-up alert message, click Open detailed vulnerability report.

6. If you want to exclude specific packages for analysis, you can use the exhortignore as a comment tag for your specific programming language.

   • For Maven, update the pom.xml file:

     ...
     <dependency> <!--exhortignore-->
       <groupId>...</groupId>
       <artifactId>...</artifactId>
       <version>...</version>
     </dependency>
     ...

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   • For Go, update the go.mod file:

     module github.com/trustify-da/SaaSi/deployer
     
     go 1.19
     
     require (
             github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect exhortignore
             github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3 v3.9.0 // indirect
             github.com/go-logr/logr v1.2.3 // indirect //exhortignore
     
     )
     ...

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   • For Python, update the requirements.txt file:

     ...
     click==8.0.4 #exhortignore
     ...

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   • For Gradle, update the build.gradle file:

     plugins {
     id 'java'
     }
     
     group = 'groupName'
     version = 'version'
     
     repositories {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     
     dependencies {
         implementation "groupId:artifactId:version" // exhortignore
     }
     test {
         useJUnitPlatform()
     }

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