There should be an API command to execute the color provider like we have for code complete and others. Fixes #45867

src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostApiCommands.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import { IDisposable } from 'vs/base/common/lifecycle';
 import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 import * as typeConverters from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypeConverters';
 import * as types from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypes';
+import { IRawColorInfo } from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHost.protocol';
+
 import { ISingleEditOperation } from 'vs/editor/common/model';
 import * as modes from 'vs/editor/common/modes';
 import { ICommandHandlerDescription } from 'vs/platform/commands/common/commands';
@@ -177,7 +179,21 @@ export class ExtHostApiCommands {
 			args: [],
 			returns: 'An array of task handles'
 		});
-
+		this._register('vscode.executeDocumentColorProvider', this._executeDocumentColorProvider, {
+			description: 'Execute document color provider.',
+			args: [
+				{ name: 'uri', description: 'Uri of a text document', constraint: URI },
+			],
+			returns: 'A promise that resolves to an array of ColorInformation objects.'
+		});
+		this._register('vscode.executeColorPresentationProvider', this._executeColorPresentationProvider, {
+			description: 'Execute color presentation provider.',
+			args: [
+				{ name: 'color', description: 'The color to show and insert', constraint: types.Color },
+				{ name: 'context', description: 'Context object with uri and range' }
+			],
+			returns: 'A promise that resolves to an array of ColorPresentation objects.'
+		});
 		this._register('vscode.previewHtml', (uri: URI, position?: vscode.ViewColumn, label?: string, options?: any) => {
 			return this._commands.executeCommand('_workbench.previewHtml',
 				uri,
@@ -391,6 +407,32 @@ export class ExtHostApiCommands {
 		});
 	}
 
+	private _executeDocumentColorProvider(resource: URI): Thenable<types.ColorInformation[]> {
+		const args = {
+			resource
+		};
+		return this._commands.executeCommand<IRawColorInfo[]>('_executeDocumentColorProvider', args).then(result => {
+			if (result) {
+				return result.map(ci => ({ range: typeConverters.toRange(ci.range), color: typeConverters.Color.to(ci.color) }));
+			}
+			return [];
+		});
+	}
+
+	private _executeColorPresentationProvider(color: types.Color, context: { uri: URI, range: types.Range }): Thenable<types.ColorPresentation[]> {
+		const args = {
+			resource: context.uri,
+			color: typeConverters.Color.from(color),
+			range: typeConverters.fromRange(context.range),
+		};
+		return this._commands.executeCommand<modes.IColorPresentation[]>('_executeColorPresentationProvider', args).then(result => {
+			if (result) {
+				return result.map(typeConverters.ColorPresentation.to);
+			}
+			return [];
+		});
+	}
+
 	private _executeDocumentSymbolProvider(resource: URI): Thenable<types.SymbolInformation[]> {
 		const args = {
 			resource

src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostLanguageFeatures.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { TPromise } from 'vs/base/common/winjs.base';
 import { mixin } from 'vs/base/common/objects';
 import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 import * as TypeConverters from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypeConverters';
-import { Range, Disposable, CompletionList, SnippetString, Color, CodeActionKind } from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypes';
+import { Range, Disposable, CompletionList, SnippetString, CodeActionKind } from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypes';
 import { ISingleEditOperation } from 'vs/editor/common/model';
 import * as modes from 'vs/editor/common/modes';
 import { ExtHostHeapService } from 'vs/workbench/api/node/extHostHeapService';
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ class ColorProviderAdapter {
 
 			const colorInfos: IRawColorInfo[] = colors.map(ci => {
 				return {
-					color: [ci.color.red, ci.color.green, ci.color.blue, ci.color.alpha] as [number, number, number, number],
+					color: TypeConverters.Color.from(ci.color),
 					range: TypeConverters.fromRange(ci.range)
 				};
 			});
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ class ColorProviderAdapter {
 	provideColorPresentations(resource: URI, raw: IRawColorInfo): TPromise<modes.IColorPresentation[]> {
 		const document = this._documents.getDocumentData(resource).document;
 		const range = TypeConverters.toRange(raw.range);
-		const color = new Color(raw.color[0], raw.color[1], raw.color[2], raw.color[3]);
+		const color = TypeConverters.Color.to(raw.color);
 		return asWinJsPromise(token => this._provider.provideColorPresentations(color, { document, range }, token)).then(value => {
 			return value.map(TypeConverters.ColorPresentation.from);
 		});

src/vs/workbench/api/node/extHostTypeConverters.ts

@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ export function fromPosition(position: types.Position): IPosition {
 	return { lineNumber: position.line + 1, column: position.character + 1 };
 }
 
-
 export function fromDiagnostic(value: vscode.Diagnostic): IMarkerData {
 	return {
 		...fromRange(value.range),
@@ -245,7 +244,7 @@ export const TextEdit = {
 			range: fromRange(edit.range)
 		};
 	},
-	to(edit: modes.TextEdit): vscode.TextEdit {
+	to(edit: modes.TextEdit): types.TextEdit {
 		let result = new types.TextEdit(toRange(edit.range), edit.text);
 		result.newEol = EndOfLine.to(edit.eol);
 		return result;
@@ -547,12 +546,15 @@ export namespace DocumentLink {
 }
 
 export namespace ColorPresentation {
-	export function to(colorPresentation: modes.IColorPresentation): vscode.ColorPresentation {
-		return {
-			label: colorPresentation.label,
-			textEdit: colorPresentation.textEdit ? TextEdit.to(colorPresentation.textEdit) : undefined,
-			additionalTextEdits: colorPresentation.additionalTextEdits ? colorPresentation.additionalTextEdits.map(value => TextEdit.to(value)) : undefined
-		};
+	export function to(colorPresentation: modes.IColorPresentation): types.ColorPresentation {
+		let cp = new types.ColorPresentation(colorPresentation.label);
+		if (colorPresentation.textEdit) {
+			cp.textEdit = TextEdit.to(colorPresentation.textEdit);
+		}
+		if (colorPresentation.additionalTextEdits) {
+			cp.additionalTextEdits = colorPresentation.additionalTextEdits.map(value => TextEdit.to(value));
+		}
+		return cp;
 	}
 
 	export function from(colorPresentation: vscode.ColorPresentation): modes.IColorPresentation {
@@ -564,6 +566,15 @@ export namespace ColorPresentation {
 	}
 }
 
+export namespace Color {
+	export function to(c: [number, number, number, number]): types.Color {
+		return new types.Color(c[0], c[1], c[2], c[3]);
+	}
+	export function from(color: types.Color): [number, number, number, number] {
+		return [color.red, color.green, color.blue, color.alpha];
+	}
+}
+
 export namespace TextDocumentSaveReason {
 
 	export function to(reason: SaveReason): vscode.TextDocumentSaveReason {