MySQL Database Service Plugin for MySQL Shell

January 21, 2026 · View on GitHub

This folder contains the code for the MySQL Database Service (short: MDS) plugin. It is part of the MySQL Shell Plugins repository.

Contributing to MySQL Database Service Plugin

No installation is necessary for this plugin, beside the setup of Visual Studio Code to be able to work on the code.

Visual Studio Code Settings

Include the following settings in your VS Code settings.json file in order to allow the Python linter find the referenced packages.

{
    "python.analysis.extraPaths": [
        "/usr/local/mysql-shell/lib/mysqlsh/python-packages/",
        "${workspaceFolder}\\plugins\\rds_plugin",
        "/usr/local/mysql-shell/lib/mysqlsh/lib/python3.9/site-packages"
    ],
    "python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
        "/usr/local/mysql-shell/lib/mysqlsh/python-packages/",
        "/usr/local/mysql-shell/lib/mysqlsh/lib/python3.9/site-packages",
        "${workspaceFolder}\\plugins\\rds_plugin"
    ]
}