Now, here in this program, I could of course now also enhance the restore database function
by using inline chat and also add error handling here.
But I'll instead do something else.
I'll open that sidebar chat by using the appropriate shortcut or the command palette
command open chat.
And with that, we got a more powerful chat window that opens up where the inline chat
is really a very useful feature for tweaking specific parts of your code or for quickly
adding code in certain parts of your file.
This chat sidebar, this chat window here is really about completing more complex tasks
or asking more complex questions about your code base.
And here it will also not generate code, but instead generate answers which may contain
code but which may also contain other information.
For example, here I could ask, how could the following Python code be optimized and improved?
And I could then copy this code here into this chat.
And I'll show you another way soon, but I could copy it in here and hit enter.
And now this will be sent to GitHub servers.
It will be analyzed and it will tell me how I could improve it.
And essentially here, it also suggests that I could add error handling and also use this
logging package here for better structured logging and so on.
So that's what it's also telling me here.
And then it shows me how the code would have to be adjusted to, well, have this functionality.
And as you can see, it also gives me some buttons here.
If I hover over this code snippet, it generates it.
It gives me a button for applying these changes in the editor, for inserting them at the cursor
position in the editor, for copying it so that I can manually edit wherever I want,
or for inserting this code into the terminal, which doesn't make too much sense, but that
could make sense if a terminal command would be generated here.
We'll dive into that later.
Or I could insert it into a new file.
So here, if I click apply, this first button in my case here, apply an editor, you see
it's going ahead and it's trying to apply this code here to my code here.
And the operator makes a lot of changes here because it does not just take this code and
paste it into one place in my code.
Instead, it tries to apply it to the entire file.
For example, the import gets added to the top.
This configuration gets added to the top, and then it changes the restore database function.
Now here, it actually also does something which is not part of this code snippet.
It understands that this function should probably also use this logging package here
if I'm using it in the other function, so that we're consistent again.
And therefore, of course, I can evaluate these changes.
Again, code that's added is highlighted in dark green.
Code that would be removed would be red.
And I can accept them, I can discard them, so that we go back to the original state.
I can also click show changes to get that more detailed view where it essentially shows
me that it erases my old code, but then re-adds it with those changes, so that technically
only small parts of the code change.
And therefore, finally here, I'll accept these changes like this.
And now with that, I got my code updated here with those changes applied.
So with the logging package used and with error handling used here in a restore DB.
Now with that, if I rerun this and I try to restore, you see I'm getting an error here
that it failed to restore because the backup DB file does not exist, but I got this different
logging format here now due to this logging package being used.
And that's there for another way of using chat.
Not using the inline chat, but instead this chat here in the sidebar to have more space
for writing your command.
You can paste in some extra code and for getting more details regarding the reply so that it's
not just a code being edited, but you also get some explanations regarding what changed
and why.
And as you saw, you then got different options of applying those changes or of using any
code that might have been generated.