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LSP Extensions
This document describes LSP extensions used by rust-analyzer.
It's a best effort document, when in doubt, consult the source (and send a PR with clarification ;-) ).
We aim to upstream all non Rust-specific extensions to the protocol, but this is not a top priority.
All capabilities are enabled via the experimental
field of ClientCapabilities
or ServerCapabilities
.
Requests which we hope to upstream live under experimental/
namespace.
Requests, which are likely to always remain specific to rust-analyzer
are under rust-analyzer/
namespace.
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Configuration in initializationOptions
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/567
The initializationOptions
field of the InitializeParams
of the initialization request should contain the "rust-analyzer"
section of the configuration.
rust-analyzer
normally sends a "workspace/configuration"
request with { "items": ["rust-analyzer"] }
payload.
However, the server can't do this during initialization.
At the same time some essential configuration parameters are needed early on, before servicing requests.
For this reason, we ask that initializationOptions
contains the configuration, as if the server did make a "workspace/configuration"
request.
If a language client does not know about rust-analyzer
's configuration options it can get sensible defaults by doing any of the following:
- Not sending
initializationOptions
- Sending
"initializationOptions": null
- Sending
"initializationOptions": {}
Snippet TextEdit
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/724
Experimental Client Capability: { "snippetTextEdit": boolean }
If this capability is set, WorkspaceEdit
s returned from codeAction
requests and TextEdit
s returned from textDocument/onTypeFormatting
requests might contain SnippetTextEdit
s instead of usual TextEdit
s:
interface SnippetTextEdit extends TextEdit {
insertTextFormat?: InsertTextFormat;
annotationId?: ChangeAnnotationIdentifier;
}
export interface TextDocumentEdit {
textDocument: OptionalVersionedTextDocumentIdentifier;
edits: (TextEdit | SnippetTextEdit)[];
}
When applying such code action or text edit, the editor should insert snippet, with tab stops and placeholder.
At the moment, rust-analyzer guarantees that only a single edit will have InsertTextFormat.Snippet
.
Example
"Add derive
" code action transforms struct S;
into #[derive($0)] struct S;
Unresolved Questions
- Where exactly are
SnippetTextEdit
s allowed (only in code actions at the moment)? - Can snippets span multiple files (so far, no)?
CodeAction
Groups
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/994
Experimental Client Capability: { "codeActionGroup": boolean }
If this capability is set, CodeAction
s returned from the server contain an additional field, group
:
interface CodeAction {
title: string;
group?: string;
...
}
All code-actions with the same group
should be grouped under single (extendable) entry in lightbulb menu.
The set of actions [ { title: "foo" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "bar" }, { group: "frobnicate", title: "baz" }]
should be rendered as
💡
+-------------+
| foo |
+-------------+-----+
| frobnicate >| bar |
+-------------+-----+
| baz |
+-----+
Alternatively, selecting frobnicate
could present a user with an additional menu to choose between bar
and baz
.
Example
fn main() {
let x: Entry/*cursor here*/ = todo!();
}
Invoking 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.
Unresolved Questions
- Is a fixed two-level structure enough?
- Should we devise a general way to encode custom interaction protocols for GUI refactorings?
Parent Module
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1002
Experimental Server Capability: { "parentModule": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to handle "Goto Parent Module" editor action.
Method: experimental/parentModule
Request: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response: Location | Location[] | LocationLink[] | null
Example
// src/main.rs
mod foo;
// src/foo.rs
/* cursor here*/
experimental/parentModule
returns a single Link
to the mod foo;
declaration.
Unresolved Question
- An alternative would be to use a more general "gotoSuper" request, which would work for super methods, super classes and super modules. This is the approach IntelliJ Rust is taking. However, experience shows that super module (which generally has a feeling of navigation between files) should be separate. If you want super module, but the cursor happens to be inside an overridden function, the behavior with single "gotoSuper" request is surprising.
Join Lines
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/992
Experimental Server Capability: { "joinLines": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to handle "Join Lines" editor action.
Method: experimental/joinLines
Request:
interface JoinLinesParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
/// Currently active selections/cursor offsets.
/// This is an array to support multiple cursors.
ranges: Range[],
}
Response: TextEdit[]
Example
fn main() {
/*cursor here*/let x = {
92
};
}
experimental/joinLines
yields (curly braces are automagically removed)
fn main() {
let x = 92;
}
Unresolved Question
- What is the position of the cursor after
joinLines
? Currently, this is left to editor's discretion, but it might be useful to specify on the server via snippets. However, it then becomes unclear how it works with multi cursor.
On Enter
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/1001
Experimental Server Capability: { "onEnter": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to handle the Enter key press.
Method: experimental/onEnter
Request:: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response:
SnippetTextEdit[]
Example
fn main() {
// Some /*cursor here*/ docs
let x = 92;
}
experimental/onEnter
returns the following snippet
fn main() {
// Some
// $0 docs
let x = 92;
}
The primary goal of onEnter
is to handle automatic indentation when opening a new line.
This is not yet implemented.
The secondary goal is to handle fixing up syntax, like continuing doc strings and comments, and escaping \n
in string literals.
As proper cursor positioning is raison-d'etat for onEnter
, it uses SnippetTextEdit
.
Unresolved Question
- How to deal with synchronicity of the request? One option is to require the client to block until the server returns the response. Another option is to do a OT-style merging of edits from client and server. A third option is to do a record-replay: client applies heuristic on enter immediately, then applies all user's keypresses. When the server is ready with the response, the client rollbacks all the changes and applies the recorded actions on top of the correct response.
- How to deal with multiple carets?
- Should we extend this to arbitrary typed events and not just
onEnter
?
Structural Search Replace (SSR)
Experimental Server Capability: { "ssr": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to handle structural search replace -- automated syntax tree based transformation of the source.
Method: experimental/ssr
Request:
interface SsrParams {
/// Search query.
/// The specific syntax is specified outside of the protocol.
query: string,
/// If true, only check the syntax of the query and don't compute the actual edit.
parseOnly: boolean,
/// The current text document. This and `position` will be used to determine in what scope
/// paths in `query` should be resolved.
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier;
/// Position where SSR was invoked.
position: Position;
/// Current selections. Search/replace will be restricted to these if non-empty.
selections: Range[];
}
Response:
WorkspaceEdit
Example
SSR with query foo($a, $b) ==>> ($a).foo($b)
will transform, eg foo(y + 5, z)
into (y + 5).foo(z)
.
Unresolved Question
- Probably needs search without replace mode
- Needs a way to limit the scope to certain files.
Matching Brace
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/999
Experimental Server Capability: { "matchingBrace": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to handle "Matching Brace" editor action.
Method: experimental/matchingBrace
Request:
interface MatchingBraceParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
/// Position for each cursor
positions: Position[],
}
Response:
Position[]
Example
fn main() {
let x: Vec<()>/*cursor here*/ = vec![]
}
experimental/matchingBrace
yields the position of <
.
In many cases, matching braces can be handled by the editor.
However, some cases (like disambiguating between generics and comparison operations) need a real parser.
Moreover, it would be cool if editors didn't need to implement even basic language parsing
Unresolved Question
- Should we return a nested brace structure, to allow paredit-like actions of jump out of the current brace pair?
This is how
SelectionRange
request works. - Alternatively, should we perhaps flag certain
SelectionRange
s as being brace pairs?
Runnables
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/944
Experimental Server Capability: { "runnables": { "kinds": string[] } }
This request is sent from client to server to get the list of things that can be run (tests, binaries, cargo check -p
).
Method: experimental/runnables
Request:
interface RunnablesParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier;
/// If null, compute runnables for the whole file.
position?: Position;
}
Response: Runnable[]
interface Runnable {
label: string;
/// If this Runnable is associated with a specific function/module, etc, the location of this item
location?: LocationLink;
/// Running things is necessary technology specific, `kind` needs to be advertised via server capabilities,
// the type of `args` is specific to `kind`. The actual running is handled by the client.
kind: string;
args: any;
}
rust-analyzer supports only one kind
, "cargo"
. The args
for "cargo"
look like this:
{
workspaceRoot?: string;
cargoArgs: string[];
cargoExtraArgs: string[];
executableArgs: string[];
expectTest?: boolean;
overrideCargo?: string;
}
Open External Documentation
This request is sent from client to server to get a URL to documentation for the symbol under the cursor, if available.
Method experimental/externalDocs
Request:: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response string | null
Analyzer Status
Method: rust-analyzer/analyzerStatus
Request:
interface AnalyzerStatusParams {
/// If specified, show dependencies of the current file.
textDocument?: TextDocumentIdentifier;
}
Response: string
Returns internal status message, mostly for debugging purposes.
Reload Workspace
Method: rust-analyzer/reloadWorkspace
Request: null
Response: null
Reloads project information (that is, re-executes cargo metadata
).
Rebuild proc-macros
Method: rust-analyzer/rebuildProcMacros
Request: null
Response: null
Rebuilds build scripts and proc-macros, and runs the build scripts to reseed the build data.
Server Status
Experimental Client Capability: { "serverStatusNotification": boolean }
Method: experimental/serverStatus
Notification:
interface ServerStatusParams {
/// `ok` means that the server is completely functional.
///
/// `warning` means that the server is partially functional.
/// It can answer correctly to most requests, but some results
/// might be wrong due to, for example, some missing dependencies.
///
/// `error` means that the server is not functional. For example,
/// there's a fatal build configuration problem. The server might
/// still give correct answers to simple requests, but most results
/// will be incomplete or wrong.
health: "ok" | "warning" | "error",
/// Is there any pending background work which might change the status?
/// For example, are dependencies being downloaded?
quiescent: boolean,
/// Explanatory message to show on hover.
message?: string,
}
This notification is sent from server to client.
The client can use it to display persistent status to the user (in modline).
It is similar to the showMessage
, but is intended for stares rather than point-in-time events.
Note that this functionality is intended primarily to inform the end user about the state of the server.
In particular, it's valid for the client to completely ignore this extension.
Clients are discouraged from but are allowed to use the health
status to decide if it's worth sending a request to the server.
Controlling Flycheck
The flycheck/checkOnSave feature can be controlled via notifications sent by the client to the server.
Method: rust-analyzer/runFlycheck
Notification:
interface RunFlycheckParams {
/// The text document whose cargo workspace flycheck process should be started.
/// If the document is null or does not belong to a cargo workspace all flycheck processes will be started.
textDocument: lc.TextDocumentIdentifier | null;
}
Triggers the flycheck processes.
Method: rust-analyzer/clearFlycheck
Notification:
interface ClearFlycheckParams {}
Clears the flycheck diagnostics.
Method: rust-analyzer/cancelFlycheck
Notification:
interface CancelFlycheckParams {}
Cancels all running flycheck processes.
Syntax Tree
Method: rust-analyzer/syntaxTree
Request:
interface SyntaxTreeParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
range?: Range,
}
Response: string
Returns textual representation of a parse tree for the file/selected region. Primarily for debugging, but very useful for all people working on rust-analyzer itself.
View Hir
Method: rust-analyzer/viewHir
Request: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response: string
Returns a textual representation of the HIR of the function containing the cursor. For debugging or when working on rust-analyzer itself.
View Mir
Method: rust-analyzer/viewMir
Request: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response: string
Returns a textual representation of the MIR of the function containing the cursor. For debugging or when working on rust-analyzer itself.
Interpret Function
Method: rust-analyzer/interpretFunction
Request: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response: string
Tries to evaluate the function using internal rust analyzer knowledge, without compiling the code. Currently evaluates the function under cursor, but will give a runnable in future. Highly experimental.
View File Text
Method: rust-analyzer/viewFileText
Request: TextDocumentIdentifier
Response: string
Returns the text of a file as seen by the server. This is for debugging file sync problems.
View ItemTree
Method: rust-analyzer/viewItemTree
Request:
interface ViewItemTreeParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
}
Response: string
Returns a textual representation of the ItemTree
of the currently open file, for debugging.
View Crate Graph
Method: rust-analyzer/viewCrateGraph
Request:
interface ViewCrateGraphParams {
full: boolean,
}
Response: string
Renders rust-analyzer's crate graph as an SVG image.
If full
is true
, the graph includes non-workspace crates (crates.io dependencies as well as sysroot crates).
Shuffle Crate Graph
Method: rust-analyzer/shuffleCrateGraph
Request: null
Shuffles the crate IDs in the crate graph, for debugging purposes.
Expand Macro
Method: rust-analyzer/expandMacro
Request:
interface ExpandMacroParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
position: Position,
}
Response:
interface ExpandedMacro {
name: string,
expansion: string,
}
Expands macro call at a given position.
Hover Actions
Experimental Client Capability: { "hoverActions": boolean }
If this capability is set, Hover
request returned from the server might contain an additional field, actions
:
interface Hover {
...
actions?: CommandLinkGroup[];
}
interface CommandLink extends Command {
/**
* A tooltip for the command, when represented in the UI.
*/
tooltip?: string;
}
interface CommandLinkGroup {
title?: string;
commands: CommandLink[];
}
Such actions on the client side are appended to a hover bottom as command links:
+-----------------------------+
| Hover content |
| |
+-----------------------------+
| _Action1_ | _Action2_ | <- first group, no TITLE
+-----------------------------+
| TITLE _Action1_ | _Action2_ | <- second group
+-----------------------------+
...
Open Cargo.toml
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/issues/6462
Experimental Server Capability: { "openCargoToml": boolean }
This request is sent from client to server to open the current project's Cargo.toml
Method: experimental/openCargoToml
Request: OpenCargoTomlParams
Response: Location | null
Example
// Cargo.toml
[package]
// src/main.rs
/* cursor here*/
experimental/openCargoToml
returns a single Link
to the start of the [package]
keyword.
Related tests
This request is sent from client to server to get the list of tests for the specified position.
Method: rust-analyzer/relatedTests
Request: TextDocumentPositionParams
Response: TestInfo[]
interface TestInfo {
runnable: Runnable;
}
Hover Range
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/377
Experimental Server Capability: { "hoverRange": boolean }
This extension allows passing a Range
as a position
field of HoverParams
.
The primary use-case is to use the hover request to show the type of the expression currently selected.
interface HoverParams extends WorkDoneProgressParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier;
position: Range | Position;
}
Whenever the client sends a Range
, it is understood as the current selection and any hover included in the range will show the type of the expression if possible.
Example
fn main() {
let expression = $01 + 2 * 3$0;
}
Triggering a hover inside the selection above will show a result of i32
.
Move Item
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/issues/6823
This request is sent from client to server to move item under cursor or selection in some direction.
Method: experimental/moveItem
Request: MoveItemParams
Response: SnippetTextEdit[]
export interface MoveItemParams {
textDocument: TextDocumentIdentifier,
range: Range,
direction: Direction
}
export const enum Direction {
Up = "Up",
Down = "Down"
}
Workspace Symbols Filtering
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/941
Experimental Server Capability: { "workspaceSymbolScopeKindFiltering": boolean }
Extends the existing workspace/symbol
request with ability to filter symbols by broad scope and kind of symbol.
If this capability is set, workspace/symbol
parameter gains two new optional fields:
interface WorkspaceSymbolParams {
/**
* Return only the symbols defined in the specified scope.
*/
searchScope?: WorkspaceSymbolSearchScope;
/**
* Return only the symbols of specified kinds.
*/
searchKind?: WorkspaceSymbolSearchKind;
...
}
const enum WorkspaceSymbolSearchScope {
Workspace = "workspace",
WorkspaceAndDependencies = "workspaceAndDependencies"
}
const enum WorkspaceSymbolSearchKind {
OnlyTypes = "onlyTypes",
AllSymbols = "allSymbols"
}
Client Commands
Upstream Issue: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/642
Experimental Client Capability: { "commands?": ClientCommandOptions }
Certain LSP types originating on the server, notably code lenses, embed commands. Commands can be serviced either by the server or by the client. However, the server doesn't know which commands are available on the client.
This extensions allows the client to communicate this info.
export interface ClientCommandOptions {
/**
* The commands to be executed on the client
*/
commands: string[];
}
Colored Diagnostic Output
Experimental Client Capability: { "colorDiagnosticOutput": boolean }
If this capability is set, the "full compiler diagnostics" provided by checkOnSave
will include ANSI color and style codes to render the diagnostic in a similar manner
as cargo
. This is translated into --message-format=json-diagnostic-rendered-ansi
when flycheck is run, instead of the default --message-format=json
.
The full compiler rendered diagnostics are included in the server response regardless of this capability:
// https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/specification-current#diagnostic
export interface Diagnostic {
...
data?: {
/**
* The human-readable compiler output as it would be printed to a terminal.
* Includes ANSI color and style codes if the client has set the experimental
* `colorDiagnosticOutput` capability.
*/
rendered?: string;
};
}
Dependency Tree
Method: rust-analyzer/fetchDependencyList
Request:
export interface FetchDependencyGraphParams {}
Response:
export interface FetchDependencyGraphResult {
crates: {
name: string;
version: string;
path: string;
}[];
}
Returns all crates from this workspace, so it can be used create a viewTree to help navigate the dependency tree.