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3This document describes LSP extensions used by rust-analyzer. 3This document describes LSP extensions used by rust-analyzer.
4It's a best effort document, when in doubt, consult the source (and send a PR with clarification ;-) ). 4It's a best effort document, when in doubt, consult the source (and send a PR with clarification ;-) ).
5We aim to upstream all non Rust-specific extensions to the protocol, but this is not a top priority. 5We aim to upstream all non Rust-specific extensions to the protocol, but this is not a top priority.
6All capabilities are enabled via `experimental` field of `ClientCapabilities`. 6All capabilities are enabled via `experimental` field of `ClientCapabilities` or `ServerCapabilities`.
7Requests which we hope to upstream live under `experimental/` namespace.
8Requests, which are likely to always remain specific to `rust-analyzer` are under `rust-analyzer/` namespace.
7 9
8## `SnippetTextEdit` 10## Snippet `TextEdit`
9 11
10**Capability** 12**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/724
11 13
12```typescript 14**Client Capability:** `{ "snippetTextEdit": boolean }`
13{
14 "snippetTextEdit": boolean
15}
16```
17 15
18If this capability is set, `WorkspaceEdit`s returned from `codeAction` requests might contain `SnippetTextEdit`s instead of usual `TextEdit`s: 16If this capability is set, `WorkspaceEdit`s returned from `codeAction` requests might contain `SnippetTextEdit`s instead of usual `TextEdit`s:
19 17
@@ -32,3 +30,335 @@ export interface TextDocumentEdit {
32 30
33When applying such code action, the editor should insert snippet, with tab stops and placeholder. 31When applying such code action, the editor should insert snippet, with tab stops and placeholder.
34At the moment, rust-analyzer guarantees that only a single edit will have `InsertTextFormat.Snippet`. 32At the moment, rust-analyzer guarantees that only a single edit will have `InsertTextFormat.Snippet`.
33
34### Example
35
36"Add `derive`" code action transforms `struct S;` into `#[derive($0)] struct S;`
37
38### Unresolved Questions
39
40* Where exactly are `SnippetTextEdit`s allowed (only in code actions at the moment)?
41* Can snippets span multiple files (so far, no)?
42
43## `CodeAction` Groups
44
45**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/994
46
47**Client Capability:** `{ "codeActionGroup": boolean }`
48
49If this capability is set, `CodeAction` returned from the server contain an additional field, `group`:
50
51```typescript
52interface CodeAction {
53 title: string;
54 group?: string;
55 ...
56}
57```
58
59All code-actions with the same `group` should be grouped under single (extendable) entry in lightbulb menu.
60The set of actions `[ { title: "foo" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "bar" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "baz" }]` should be rendered as
61
62```
63💡
64 +-------------+
65 | foo |
66 +-------------+-----+
67 | frobnicate >| bar |
68 +-------------+-----+
69 | baz |
70 +-----+
71```
72
73Alternatively, selecting `frobnicate` could present a user with an additional menu to choose between `bar` and `baz`.
74
75### Example
76
77```rust
78fn main() {
79 let x: Entry/*cursor here*/ = todo!();
80}
81```
82
83Invoking code action at this position will yield two code actions for importing `Entry` from either `collections::HashMap` or `collection::BTreeMap`, grouped under a single "import" group.
84
85### Unresolved Questions
86
87* Is a fixed two-level structure enough?
88* Should we devise a general way to encode custom interaction protocols for GUI refactorings?
89
90## Parent Module
91
92**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1002
93
94**Server Capability:** `{ "parentModule": boolean }`
95
96This request is send from client to server to handle "Goto Parent Module" editor action.
97
98**Method:** `experimental/parentModule`
99
100**Request:** `TextDocumentPositionParams`
101
102**Response:** `Location | Location[] | LocationLink[] | null`
103
104
105### Example
106
107```rust
108// src/main.rs
109mod foo;
110// src/foo.rs
111
112/* cursor here*/
113```
114
115`experimental/parentModule` returns a single `Link` to the `mod foo;` declaration.
116
117### Unresolved Question
118
119* An alternative would be to use a more general "gotoSuper" request, which would work for super methods, super classes and super modules.
120 This is the approach IntelliJ Rust is takeing.
121 However, experience shows that super module (which generally has a feeling of navigation between files) should be separate.
122 If you want super module, but the cursor happens to be inside an overriden function, the behavior with single "gotoSuper" request is surprising.
123
124## Join Lines
125
126**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/992
127
128**Server Capability:** `{ "joinLines": boolean }`
129
130This request is send from client to server to handle "Join Lines" editor action.
131
132**Method:** `experimental/joinLines`
133
134**Request:**
135
136```typescript
137interface JoinLinesParams {
138 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
139 /// Currently active selections/cursor offsets.
140 /// This is an array to support multiple cursors.
141 ranges: Range[],
142}
143```
144
145**Response:** `TextEdit[]`
146
147### Example
148
149```rust
150fn main() {
151 /*cursor here*/let x = {
152 92
153 };
154}
155```
156
157`experimental/joinLines` yields (curly braces are automagiacally removed)
158
159```rust
160fn main() {
161 let x = 92;
162}
163```
164
165### Unresolved Question
166
167* What is the position of the cursor after `joinLines`?
168 Currently this is left to editor's discretion, but it might be useful to specify on the server via snippets.
169 However, it then becomes unclear how it works with multi cursor.
170
171## On Enter
172
173**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1001
174
175**Server Capability:** `{ "onEnter": boolean }`
176
177This request is send from client to server to handle <kbd>Enter</kbd> keypress.
178
179**Method:** `experimental/onEnter`
180
181**Request:**: `TextDocumentPositionParams`
182
183**Response:**
184
185```typescript
186SnippetTextEdit[]
187```
188
189### Example
190
191```rust
192fn main() {
193 // Some /*cursor here*/ docs
194 let x = 92;
195}
196```
197
198`experimental/onEnter` returns the following snippet
199
200```rust
201fn main() {
202 // Some
203 // $0 docs
204 let x = 92;
205}
206```
207
208The primary goal of `onEnter` is to handle automatic indentation when opening a new line.
209This is not yet implemented.
210The secondary goal is to handle fixing up syntax, like continuing doc strings and comments, and escaping `\n` in string literals.
211
212As proper cursor positioning is raison-d'etat for `onEnter`, it uses `SnippetTextEdit`.
213
214### Unresolved Question
215
216* How to deal with synchronicity of the request?
217 One option is to require the client to block until the server returns the response.
218 Another option is to do a OT-style merging of edits from client and server.
219 A third option is to do a record-replay: client applies heuristic on enter immediatelly, then applies all user's keypresses.
220 When the server is ready with the response, the client rollbacks all the changes and applies the recorded actions on top of the correct response.
221* How to deal with multiple carets?
222* Should we extend this to arbitrary typed events and not just `onEnter`?
223
224## Structural Search Replace (SSR)
225
226**Server Capability:** `{ "ssr": boolean }`
227
228This request is send from client to server to handle structural search replace -- automated syntax tree based transformation of the source.
229
230**Method:** `experimental/ssr`
231
232**Request:**
233
234```typescript
235interface SsrParams {
236 /// Search query.
237 /// The specific syntax is specified outside of the protocol.
238 query: string,
239 /// If true, only check the syntax of the query and don't compute the actual edit.
240 parseOnly: bool,
241}
242```
243
244**Response:**
245
246```typescript
247WorkspaceEdit
248```
249
250### Example
251
252SSR with query `foo($a:expr, $b:expr) ==>> ($a).foo($b)` will transform, eg `foo(y + 5, z)` into `(y + 5).foo(z)`.
253
254### Unresolved Question
255
256* Probably needs search without replace mode
257* Needs a way to limit the scope to certain files.
258
259## Matching Brace
260
261**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/999
262
263**Server Capability:** `{ "matchingBrace": boolean }`
264
265This request is send from client to server to handle "Matching Brace" editor action.
266
267**Method:** `experimental/matchingBrace`
268
269**Request:**
270
271```typescript
272interface MatchingBraceParams {
273 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
274 /// Position for each cursor
275 positions: Position[],
276}
277```
278
279**Response:**
280
281```typescript
282Position[]
283```
284
285### Example
286
287```rust
288fn main() {
289 let x: Vec<()>/*cursor here*/ = vec![]
290}
291```
292
293`experimental/matchingBrace` yields the position of `<`.
294In many cases, matching braces can be handled by the editor.
295However, some cases (like disambiguating between generics and comparison operations) need a real parser.
296Moreover, it would be cool if editors didn't need to implement even basic language parsing
297
298### Unresolved Question
299
300* Should we return a a nested brace structure, to allow paredit-like actions of jump *out* of the current brace pair?
301 This is how `SelectionRange` request works.
302* Alternatively, should we perhaps flag certain `SelectionRange`s as being brace pairs?
303
304## Analyzer Status
305
306**Method:** `rust-analyzer/analyzerStatus`
307
308**Request:** `null`
309
310**Response:** `string`
311
312Returns internal status message, mostly for debugging purposes.
313
314## Collect Garbage
315
316**Method:** `rust-analyzer/collectGarbage`
317
318**Request:** `null`
319
320**Response:** `null`
321
322Frees some caches. For internal use, and is mostly broken at the moment.
323
324## Syntax Tree
325
326**Method:** `rust-analyzer/syntaxTree`
327
328**Request:**
329
330```typescript
331interface SyntaxTeeParams {
332 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
333 range?: Range,
334}
335```
336
337**Response:** `string`
338
339Returns textual representation of a parse tree for the file/selected region.
340Primarily for debugging, but very useful for all people working on rust-analyzer itself.
341
342## Expand Macro
343
344**Method:** `rust-analyzer/expandMacro`
345
346**Request:**
347
348```typescript
349interface ExpandMacroParams {
350 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
351 position: Position,
352}
353```
354
355**Response:**
356
357```typescript
358interface ExpandedMacro {
359 name: string,
360 expansion: string,
361}
362```
363
364Expands macro call at a given position.