inland crow
Hi all,
I'm trying to use a different editor with Ballerina, and would like to use the LSP with it. It is unclear to me from the documentation here (https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/tree/master/language-server) how I should go about achieving that.
Is the suggested workflow for me to build a language server executable from the java source in the repo linked above and use that, or is it published as an artifact somewhere?
trim escarp
LSP requires two entities: A language server and a language client. The LSP Language Server(LS) implementation for Ballerina is included in the Ballerina distribution(https://ballerina.io/downloads/). According to the LSP(https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/overviews/lsp/overview/), there should be a separate LSP language client for each editor. Atm, we only have a language client for VSCode in the form of Ballerina VSCode extension. It has a LSP language client which communicates with the Ballerina LS.
Therefore, you have to develop a new Language Client (extension) for the desired editor to use the Ballerina LS there.
The Ballerina LS is not published as a separate artifact. However, ballerina-lang can be built from source as specified in https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution/blob/master/docs/build-ballerina-from-source.md. You can use the resulting jar to invoke the Ballerina LS from the the developed Language Client. I am happy to help if you need more information on how to develop a Language Client.
inland crow
Thanks Malintha! I was trying to use it with neovim's LS extension (https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig), but don't have bandwidth to put into this right now... Will reach out when I get back to it!
limpid knot
The question answered here. https://stackoverflow.com/a/77241772/12458945
inland crow
Thanks! Got this working.
Ballerina syntax highlighting for anyone interested (will be putting this up in a nvim package in a few days): https://gist.github.com/rukmal/770ad7102e0fd37f2fa87123a5ac53f0
