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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.
9
10If you want to be notified about the changes to this document, subscribe to [#4604](https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues/4604).
11
12## `initializationOptions`
13
14As `initializationOptions`, `rust-analyzer` expects `"rust-analyzer"` section of the configuration.
15That is, `rust-analyzer` usually sends `"workspace/configuration"` request with `{ "items": ["rust-analyzer"] }` payload.
16`initializationOptions` should contain the same data that would be in the first item of the result.
17It's OK to not send anything, then all the settings would take their default values.
18However, some settings can not be changed after startup at the moment.
7 19
8## Snippet `TextEdit` 20## Snippet `TextEdit`
9 21
@@ -38,6 +50,87 @@ At the moment, rust-analyzer guarantees that only a single edit will have `Inser
38* Where exactly are `SnippetTextEdit`s allowed (only in code actions at the moment)? 50* Where exactly are `SnippetTextEdit`s allowed (only in code actions at the moment)?
39* Can snippets span multiple files (so far, no)? 51* Can snippets span multiple files (so far, no)?
40 52
53## `CodeAction` Groups
54
55**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/994
56
57**Client Capability:** `{ "codeActionGroup": boolean }`
58
59If this capability is set, `CodeAction` returned from the server contain an additional field, `group`:
60
61```typescript
62interface CodeAction {
63 title: string;
64 group?: string;
65 ...
66}
67```
68
69All code-actions with the same `group` should be grouped under single (extendable) entry in lightbulb menu.
70The set of actions `[ { title: "foo" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "bar" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "baz" }]` should be rendered as
71
72```
73💡
74 +-------------+
75 | foo |
76 +-------------+-----+
77 | frobnicate >| bar |
78 +-------------+-----+
79 | baz |
80 +-----+
81```
82
83Alternatively, selecting `frobnicate` could present a user with an additional menu to choose between `bar` and `baz`.
84
85### Example
86
87```rust
88fn main() {
89 let x: Entry/*cursor here*/ = todo!();
90}
91```
92
93Invoking 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.
94
95### Unresolved Questions
96
97* Is a fixed two-level structure enough?
98* Should we devise a general way to encode custom interaction protocols for GUI refactorings?
99
100## Parent Module
101
102**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1002
103
104**Server Capability:** `{ "parentModule": boolean }`
105
106This request is send from client to server to handle "Goto Parent Module" editor action.
107
108**Method:** `experimental/parentModule`
109
110**Request:** `TextDocumentPositionParams`
111
112**Response:** `Location | Location[] | LocationLink[] | null`
113
114
115### Example
116
117```rust
118// src/main.rs
119mod foo;
120// src/foo.rs
121
122/* cursor here*/
123```
124
125`experimental/parentModule` returns a single `Link` to the `mod foo;` declaration.
126
127### Unresolved Question
128
129* An alternative would be to use a more general "gotoSuper" request, which would work for super methods, super classes and super modules.
130 This is the approach IntelliJ Rust is takeing.
131 However, experience shows that super module (which generally has a feeling of navigation between files) should be separate.
132 If you want super module, but the cursor happens to be inside an overriden function, the behavior with single "gotoSuper" request is surprising.
133
41## Join Lines 134## Join Lines
42 135
43**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/992 136**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/992
@@ -46,7 +139,7 @@ At the moment, rust-analyzer guarantees that only a single edit will have `Inser
46 139
47This request is send from client to server to handle "Join Lines" editor action. 140This request is send from client to server to handle "Join Lines" editor action.
48 141
49**Method:** `experimental/JoinLines` 142**Method:** `experimental/joinLines`
50 143
51**Request:** 144**Request:**
52 145
@@ -59,11 +152,7 @@ interface JoinLinesParams {
59} 152}
60``` 153```
61 154
62**Response:** 155**Response:** `TextEdit[]`
63
64```typescript
65TextEdit[]
66```
67 156
68### Example 157### Example
69 158
@@ -75,7 +164,7 @@ fn main() {
75} 164}
76``` 165```
77 166
78`experimental/joinLines` yields (curly braces are automagiacally removed) 167`experimental/joinLines` yields (curly braces are automagically removed)
79 168
80```rust 169```rust
81fn main() { 170fn main() {
@@ -89,6 +178,59 @@ fn main() {
89 Currently this is left to editor's discretion, but it might be useful to specify on the server via snippets. 178 Currently this is left to editor's discretion, but it might be useful to specify on the server via snippets.
90 However, it then becomes unclear how it works with multi cursor. 179 However, it then becomes unclear how it works with multi cursor.
91 180
181## On Enter
182
183**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1001
184
185**Server Capability:** `{ "onEnter": boolean }`
186
187This request is send from client to server to handle <kbd>Enter</kbd> keypress.
188
189**Method:** `experimental/onEnter`
190
191**Request:**: `TextDocumentPositionParams`
192
193**Response:**
194
195```typescript
196SnippetTextEdit[]
197```
198
199### Example
200
201```rust
202fn main() {
203 // Some /*cursor here*/ docs
204 let x = 92;
205}
206```
207
208`experimental/onEnter` returns the following snippet
209
210```rust
211fn main() {
212 // Some
213 // $0 docs
214 let x = 92;
215}
216```
217
218The primary goal of `onEnter` is to handle automatic indentation when opening a new line.
219This is not yet implemented.
220The secondary goal is to handle fixing up syntax, like continuing doc strings and comments, and escaping `\n` in string literals.
221
222As proper cursor positioning is raison-d'etat for `onEnter`, it uses `SnippetTextEdit`.
223
224### Unresolved Question
225
226* How to deal with synchronicity of the request?
227 One option is to require the client to block until the server returns the response.
228 Another option is to do a OT-style merging of edits from client and server.
229 A third option is to do a record-replay: client applies heuristic on enter immediatelly, then applies all user's keypresses.
230 When the server is ready with the response, the client rollbacks all the changes and applies the recorded actions on top of the correct response.
231* How to deal with multiple carets?
232* Should we extend this to arbitrary typed events and not just `onEnter`?
233
92## Structural Search Replace (SSR) 234## Structural Search Replace (SSR)
93 235
94**Server Capability:** `{ "ssr": boolean }` 236**Server Capability:** `{ "ssr": boolean }`
@@ -124,49 +266,180 @@ SSR with query `foo($a:expr, $b:expr) ==>> ($a).foo($b)` will transform, eg `foo
124* Probably needs search without replace mode 266* Probably needs search without replace mode
125* Needs a way to limit the scope to certain files. 267* Needs a way to limit the scope to certain files.
126 268
127## `CodeAction` Groups 269## Matching Brace
128 270
129**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/994 271**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/999
130 272
131**Client Capability:** `{ "codeActionGroup": boolean }` 273**Server Capability:** `{ "matchingBrace": boolean }`
132 274
133If this capability is set, `CodeAction` returned from the server contain an additional field, `group`: 275This request is send from client to server to handle "Matching Brace" editor action.
276
277**Method:** `experimental/matchingBrace`
278
279**Request:**
134 280
135```typescript 281```typescript
136interface CodeAction { 282interface MatchingBraceParams {
137 title: string; 283 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
138 group?: string; 284 /// Position for each cursor
139 ... 285 positions: Position[],
140} 286}
141``` 287```
142 288
143All code-actions with the same `group` should be grouped under single (extendable) entry in lightbulb menu. 289**Response:**
144The set of actions `[ { title: "foo" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "bar" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "baz" }]` should be rendered as
145 290
146``` 291```typescript
147💡 292Position[]
148 +-------------+
149 | foo |
150 +-------------+-----+
151 | frobnicate >| bar |
152 +-------------+-----+
153 | baz |
154 +-----+
155``` 293```
156 294
157Alternatively, selecting `frobnicate` could present a user with an additional menu to choose between `bar` and `baz`.
158
159### Example 295### Example
160 296
161```rust 297```rust
162fn main() { 298fn main() {
163 let x: Entry/*cursor here*/ = todo!(); 299 let x: Vec<()>/*cursor here*/ = vec![]
164} 300}
165``` 301```
166 302
167Invoking 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. 303`experimental/matchingBrace` yields the position of `<`.
304In many cases, matching braces can be handled by the editor.
305However, some cases (like disambiguating between generics and comparison operations) need a real parser.
306Moreover, it would be cool if editors didn't need to implement even basic language parsing
168 307
169### Unresolved Questions 308### Unresolved Question
170 309
171* Is a fixed two-level structure enough? 310* Should we return a a nested brace structure, to allow paredit-like actions of jump *out* of the current brace pair?
172* Should we devise a general way to encode custom interaction protocols for GUI refactorings? 311 This is how `SelectionRange` request works.
312* Alternatively, should we perhaps flag certain `SelectionRange`s as being brace pairs?
313
314## Runnables
315
316**Issue:** https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/944
317
318**Server Capability:** `{ "runnables": { "kinds": string[] } }`
319
320This request is send from client to server to get the list of things that can be run (tests, binaries, `cargo check -p`).
321
322**Method:** `experimental/runnables`
323
324**Request:**
325
326```typescript
327interface RunnablesParams {
328 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier;
329 /// If null, compute runnables for the whole file.
330 position?: Position;
331}
332```
333
334**Response:** `Runnable[]`
335
336```typescript
337interface Runnable {
338 label: string;
339 /// If this Runnable is associated with a specific function/module, etc, the location of this item
340 location?: LocationLink;
341 /// Running things is necessary technology specific, `kind` needs to be advertised via server capabilities,
342 // the type of `args` is specific to `kind`. The actual running is handled by the client.
343 kind: string;
344 args: any;
345}
346```
347
348rust-analyzer supports only one `kind`, `"cargo"`. The `args` for `"cargo"` look like this:
349
350```typescript
351{
352 workspaceRoot?: string;
353 cargoArgs: string[];
354 executableArgs: string[];
355}
356```
357
358## Analyzer Status
359
360**Method:** `rust-analyzer/analyzerStatus`
361
362**Request:** `null`
363
364**Response:** `string`
365
366Returns internal status message, mostly for debugging purposes.
367
368## Collect Garbage
369
370**Method:** `rust-analyzer/collectGarbage`
371
372**Request:** `null`
373
374**Response:** `null`
375
376Frees some caches. For internal use, and is mostly broken at the moment.
377
378## Syntax Tree
379
380**Method:** `rust-analyzer/syntaxTree`
381
382**Request:**
383
384```typescript
385interface SyntaxTeeParams {
386 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
387 range?: Range,
388}
389```
390
391**Response:** `string`
392
393Returns textual representation of a parse tree for the file/selected region.
394Primarily for debugging, but very useful for all people working on rust-analyzer itself.
395
396## Expand Macro
397
398**Method:** `rust-analyzer/expandMacro`
399
400**Request:**
401
402```typescript
403interface ExpandMacroParams {
404 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
405 position: Position,
406}
407```
408
409**Response:**
410
411```typescript
412interface ExpandedMacro {
413 name: string,
414 expansion: string,
415}
416```
417
418Expands macro call at a given position.
419
420## Inlay Hints
421
422**Method:** `rust-analyzer/inlayHints`
423
424This request is send from client to server to render "inlay hints" -- virtual text inserted into editor to show things like inferred types.
425Generally, the client should re-query inlay hints after every modification.
426Note that we plan to move this request to `experimental/inlayHints`, as it is not really Rust-specific, but the current API is not necessary the right one.
427Upstream issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/956
428
429**Request:**
430
431```typescript
432interface InlayHintsParams {
433 textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
434}
435```
436
437**Response:** `InlayHint[]`
438
439```typescript
440interface InlayHint {
441 kind: "TypeHint" | "ParameterHint" | "ChainingHint",
442 range: Range,
443 label: string,
444}
445```