Use @sourcegraph/lsp-client

[felixfbecker]

@sourcegraph/lsp-client is ready to use, please adopt it and give feedback :)

[chrismwendt]

Ooh sweet, will do!

[chrismwendt]

Ok, so I tried it out and it didn't work out of the box, but the issues appear fixable:

• I need a way to set initializationOptions (to include zipURL, which is based on the rootUri). I think this has to be different from the rootUri because the go-langserver uses the rootUri to determine the import path or something.
• go-langserver expects originalRootUri to be set in the InitParams, not sure how necessary this is, though.

I submitted a PR that fixes these two: sourcegraph/lsp-client#11

However, even after that, it looks like lsp-client just go stuck after the initialize request and didn't send any hover requests: Edit I had the wrong document selector #36 (comment)

Here's a WIP for sourcegraph-go #36 in case you want to try to repro locally.

[felixfbecker]

Thanks for trying it!

• I need a way to set initializationOptions (to include zipURL, which is based on the rootUri). I think this has to be different from the rootUri because the go-langserver uses the rootUri to determine the import path or something.

Why can't it figure out the import path from rootUri?

• go-langserver expects originalRootUri to be set in the InitParams, not sure how necessary this is, though.

What is it used for / what is it set to?

However, even after that, it looks like lsp-client just go stuck after the initialize request and didn't send any hover requests:

Does the Go langserver return the hover capability?

[chrismwendt]

Why can't it figure out the import path from rootUri?

You mean go-langserver could be taught how to strip the noise like /-/raw from rootUri to get the github.com/org/repo part?

I was curious what go-langserver did with the rootUri, and I found that it mounts the files in the VFS at a path like $GOPATH/src/<rootUri> https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-langserver/blob/f9fdcbb3871320e0655530b707a3d276d561311a/langserver/handler_common.go#L35

What is it (originalRootUri) used for / what is it set to?

It's pretty much the same as rootUri, needs more investigation to determine whether or not we could drop it and use rootUri.

Does the Go langserver return the hover capability?

Edit I had the wrong document selector. #36 (comment)

Yeah, you can see it in the screenshot:

[felixfbecker]

You mean go-langserver could be taught how to strip the noise like /-/raw from rootUri to get the github.com/org/repo part?

I mean, it already needs to do something right now since the rootUri can't be set to github.com/org/repo

[chrismwendt]

Oh, that's what originalRootUri is for. Maybe we can feed two birds with one seed by moving originalRootUri into initializationOptions and letting consumers of lsp-client set custom values in initializationOptions?

[felixfbecker]

I in any way possible I would like to avoid supporting things like that because it's against the indented use of initializationOptions and won't be compatible with multi-root support.

How does Go know from looking at a file which import path it has?

[chrismwendt]

Then I need to determine whether or not go-langserver can work without knowing where to mount the repo in the VFS, which deprioritizes this in my TODO list https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/2452

[chrismwendt]

@felixfbecker I'd be happy to implement custom initializationOptions in lsp-client 😃 I'll be responsible for any use of it in the Go extension.