Add display name to diagnostics reported from extensions

[rbairwell]

Could either the "owner"/"source" in "Problems View" have the extension name or product name appended to a "Problems View report" such as:

[VSCode Code] _generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3"

or

[Ext:ProblematicExtension] _generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3"

so it is much clearer as to where the problem came from so mis-reports/bugs in the appropriate extensions etc can be reported to the appropriate maintainer.

Being able to right-click on the problem report to "Open/Go to Extension" would be very nice as well.

Reason for requesting

In the "Problems" view the output is:

[{ "resource": "/myresource", "owner": "_generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3", "severity": 4, "message": "Syntax error: expected \"word\" somewhere in the file", "startLineNumber": 74, "startColumn": 51, "endLineNumber": 74, "endColumn": 51 }]

So I know "_generated_diagnostic_collection_name_#3" was the source/owner of this problem report - but "who" are they? Which extension was it (or was it VS Code its self?) that generated this problem report? It is very unclear.

Platform:
Version: 1.69.2 (user setup)
Commit: 3b889b0
Date: 2022-07-18T16:12:52.460Z
Electron: 18.3.5
Chromium: 100.0.4896.160
Node.js: 16.13.2
V8: 10.0.139.17-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044

[sandy081]

This is coming from the model

[rbairwell]

If you mean it is coming from an extension passing a bad model back to VSCode, then yes I agree that is probably the root cause: but it's difficult to tell which extension it is.

Could a feature such as:

If a problem is matched, but no owner is set, then grab the extension name/id (or use tasks.json if the problem matcher was in that) and set the owner to that, but also add an message/debug entry to Output or similar.

be possible to help these issues? (I suspect this may have been done to the Bash IDE extension, but I have definitely seen it with the Shellcheck extension (luckily, that report had an source field so I managed to track down and raise that fault with them )

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[gjsjohnmurray]

/duplicate of #141987

[vscodenpa]

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