How to add local jar library to visual studio code?

Question

I've downloaded some jar files (e.g. gson-2.8.5.jar) and want to add them to visual studio code locally without any extra downloads so I can benefit from autocomplete feature of classes and methods, How should I do it?

I've searched a while in google and could not find anything useful, so even links to other answers is appreciated.

Look into this link. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50232557/visual-studio-code-java-extension-howto-add-jar-to-classpath — Sambit, May 12 '19 at 09:20
@Sambit, I could not figure it out. I tried creating a maven project from archetype and adding the library, but it does not load autocomplete lists. — Masked Man, May 12 '19 at 10:04
How did you add the jar file ? Did you add the dependency for gson in pom.xml ? — Sambit, May 12 '19 at 10:05
Look into the link which I provided, there is a clear instruction. — Sambit, May 12 '19 at 10:06
Add the below in dependency section of pom.xml. com.google.code.gson gson 2.8.5 — Sambit, May 12 '19 at 10:11
Also check this issue. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-pack/issues/94 — Sambit, May 12 '19 at 10:12
you could refer to [this](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-project#_standalone-java-file-support) — Leo Zhu, Jun 10 '19 at 02:55
@LeoZhu-MSFT, thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was looking for! :) — Masked Man, Jun 10 '19 at 20:42

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '19 at 16:32

As suggested by LeoZhu-MSFT which references this in comments all I had to do was open only the folder containing stand-alone Java files and if necessary put any jar dependency in a lib subdirectory (I was previously opening all directories with code snippets I work on in different languages as playground).

How to add local jar library to visual studio code?

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