crunchloop / crunchloop/devcontainer
Surface a clean container display name (from devcontainer.json `name`) as first-class metadata
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Description
## Summary
Consumers of the runtime's `ListContainers` currently only receive the **raw Docker container name**, which for the Compose path is `dc---` and for the single-container path is `devcontainer-`. There is no clean, human-friendly name to display in a UI, so consumers are forced to either show the `dc-…` string or reverse-engineer it with regex.
Meanwhile, the library **already parses** the natural friendly name — the `name` property from `devcontainer.json` — but then discards it: it's resolved into `ResolvedConfig.Name` and never stamped onto the container or returned.
## Request
Surface a friendly display name as first-class metadata, without changing the load-bearing Compose project name. Two possible shapes (either or both):
1. **Stamp a label** on created containers, e.g. `dev.containers.displayName = ResolvedConfig.Name`. This composes with the existing label-based enumeration and is cheap for consumers to read via `ListContainers` (which already populates `Labels`).
2. **Add a field** to `runtime.Container` (e.g. `DisplayName string`) populated from the resolved config.
## Pointers (as of v0.4.0)
- `config/raw.go:16` + `config/resolve.go:52` — `devcontainer.json` `name` is parsed into `ResolvedConfig.Name` (optional / `omitempty`).
- `runtime/runtime.go:284` — `Container` struct exposes only `ID`, `Name` (raw Docker name), `Image`, `State`, `Labels`; no display name.
- `up.go:463-467` — Compose project name is hardcoded `"dc-" + DevcontainerID`, which becomes the container name prefix.
- `engine.go:149-152` — single-container name is `"devcontainer-" + id`.
## Important constraint
Please keep the Compose **project name** (`dc-`) unchanged — it is load-bearing (it is the `com.docker.compose.project` label used for enumeration and by `docker compose` itself). This request is only to add *separate*, display-oriented metadata; it should not rename the project or the containers.
## Fallback behavior
`devcontainer.json` `name` is optional. When absent, a sensible fallback would be the Compose service name for siblings and something stable (e.g. `devcontainer`) for the primary — but consumers can also handle fallback themselves as long as the field is nullable/empty when unset.
## Context
Downstream (DAP) we're shipping a temporary display-time strip to hide the `dc--` prefix in our Resources UI; this issue tracks the proper fix so we can drop the workaround.
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