Remove support for CodeQL CLI versions older than 2.14.6 (#3562)

extensions/ql-vscode/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [UNRELEASED]
 
+- Remove support for CodeQL CLI versions older than 2.14.6. [#3562](https://github.com/github/vscode-codeql/pull/3562)
+
 ## 1.12.5 - 9 April 2024
 
 - Add new supported source and sink kinds in the CodeQL Model Editor [#3511](https://github.com/github/vscode-codeql/pull/3511)

extensions/ql-vscode/src/codeql-cli/cli.ts

@@ -1912,22 +1912,7 @@ function shouldDebugCliServer() {
 export class CliVersionConstraint {
   // The oldest version of the CLI that we support. This is used to determine
   // whether to show a warning about the CLI being too old on startup.
-  public static OLDEST_SUPPORTED_CLI_VERSION = new SemVer("2.13.5");
-
-  /**
-   * CLI version where the `generate extensible-predicate-metadata`
-   * command was implemented.
-   */
-  public static CLI_VERSION_WITH_EXTENSIBLE_PREDICATE_METADATA = new SemVer(
-    "2.14.3",
-  );
-
-  /**
-   * CLI version where the langauge server supports visisbility change notifications.
-   */
-  public static CLI_VERSION_WITH_VISIBILITY_NOTIFICATIONS = new SemVer(
-    "2.14.0",
-  );
+  public static OLDEST_SUPPORTED_CLI_VERSION = new SemVer("2.14.6");
 
   /**
    * CLI version where the query server supports the `evaluation/trimCache` method
@@ -1952,18 +1937,6 @@ export class CliVersionConstraint {
     return (await this.cli.getVersion()).compare(v) >= 0;
   }
 
-  async supportsVisibilityNotifications() {
-    return this.isVersionAtLeast(
-      CliVersionConstraint.CLI_VERSION_WITH_VISIBILITY_NOTIFICATIONS,
-    );
-  }
-
-  async supportsGenerateExtensiblePredicateMetadata() {
-    return this.isVersionAtLeast(
-      CliVersionConstraint.CLI_VERSION_WITH_EXTENSIBLE_PREDICATE_METADATA,
-    );
-  }
-
   async preservesExtensiblePredicatesInMrvaPack() {
     // Negated, because we _stopped_ preserving these in 2.16.1.
     return !(await this.isVersionAtLeast(

extensions/ql-vscode/src/extension.ts

@@ -1078,14 +1078,12 @@ async function activateWithInstalledDistribution(
   });
 
   // Handle visibility changes in the CodeQL language client.
-  if (await cliServer.cliConstraints.supportsVisibilityNotifications()) {
-    Window.onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors((editors) => {
-      languageClient.notifyVisibilityChange(editors);
-    });
-    // Send an inital notification to the language server
-    // to set the initial state of the visible editors.
-    languageClient.notifyVisibilityChange(Window.visibleTextEditors);
-  }
+  Window.onDidChangeVisibleTextEditors((editors) => {
+    languageClient.notifyVisibilityChange(editors);
+  });
+  // Send an inital notification to the language server
+  // to set the initial state of the visible editors.
+  languageClient.notifyVisibilityChange(Window.visibleTextEditors);
 
   // Jump-to-definition and find-references
   void extLogger.log("Registering jump-to-definition handlers.");

extensions/ql-vscode/src/variant-analysis/run-remote-query.ts

@@ -204,18 +204,14 @@ async function copyExistingQueryPack(
   // Also include query files that contain extensible predicates. These query files are not
   // needed for the query to run, but they are needed for the query pack to pass deep validation
   // of data extensions.
-  if (
-    await cliServer.cliConstraints.supportsGenerateExtensiblePredicateMetadata()
-  ) {
-    const metadata = await cliServer.generateExtensiblePredicateMetadata(
-      qlPackDetails.qlPackRootPath,
-    );
-    metadata.extensible_predicates.forEach((predicate) => {
-      if (predicate.path.endsWith(".ql")) {
-        toCopy.push(join(qlPackDetails.qlPackRootPath, predicate.path));
-      }
-    });
-  }
+  const metadata = await cliServer.generateExtensiblePredicateMetadata(
+    qlPackDetails.qlPackRootPath,
+  );
+  metadata.extensible_predicates.forEach((predicate) => {
+    if (predicate.path.endsWith(".ql")) {
+      toCopy.push(join(qlPackDetails.qlPackRootPath, predicate.path));
+    }
+  });
 
   [
     // also copy the lock file (either new name or old name) and the query file itself. These are not included in the packlist.

extensions/ql-vscode/supported_cli_versions.json

@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@
   "v2.16.6",
   "v2.15.5",
   "v2.14.6",
-  "v2.13.5",
   "nightly"
 ]

extensions/ql-vscode/test/vscode-tests/cli-integration/variant-analysis/variant-analysis-manager.test.ts

@@ -295,15 +295,6 @@ describe("Variant Analysis Manager", () => {
     // Test running core java queries to ensure that we can compile queries in packs
     // that contain queries with extensible predicates
     it("should run a remote query that is part of the java pack", async () => {
-      if (
-        !(await cli.cliConstraints.supportsGenerateExtensiblePredicateMetadata())
-      ) {
-        console.log(
-          `Skipping test because generating extensible predicate metadata was only introduced in CLI version ${CliVersionConstraint.CLI_VERSION_WITH_EXTENSIBLE_PREDICATE_METADATA}.`,
-        );
-        return;
-      }
-
       if (!process.env.TEST_CODEQL_PATH) {
         fail(
           "TEST_CODEQL_PATH environment variable not set. It should point to the absolute path to a checkout of the codeql repository.",