Language Server Protocol and Implementation

Supporting Language-Smart Editing and Programming Tools

Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe, Nipuna Marcus (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-7791-1 (ISBN)

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Understand the important aspects of implementing a production-grade language server in support of language-smart tools such as code editors and other programming utilities. This book shows you how to create a single implementation of a language server that can be used by multiple tools, enabling you to do the job once in a way that can be shared and reused.
This book covers the language server protocol used for communication between programming tools and your language server. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the design, implementation, and user experience aspects which should be considered when implementing a language server. The book walks you through an example language server implementation to illustrate the basic concepts, then goes on to cover advanced aspects of language server use such as progress reporting, launchers, and extension points.
User experience is an important aspect of language server implementation and different tooling vendors strive to provide their own unique user experiences. This book explains how the protocol features can be leveraged to address the unique developer experience provided by different tooling vendors. The book also shows how to enhance the smoothness of the editing experience by orchestrating multiple features together.

What You Will Learn

Implement a language server from scratch
Understand language server protocol and its data models
Leverage the protocol while preserving the unique user experience of different editors
Extend the protocol to support more than its standard capabilities
Run a language server on top of launchers such as standard I/O and TCP socket
Seamlessly incorporate language semantics into your protocol features

Who This Book Is ForDevelopers focused on and passionate about implementing language development tools such as plug-ins and extensions for interactive development environments (IDEs) or other tools that rely upon parsing of language statements and commands, and developers who need an in-depth understanding of the language server protocol as well as how to use the language server protocol to develop extensible language services

Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe is Technical Lead at WSO2 and has more than five years of experience in enterprise integration, programming languages, and developer tooling. He leads the Ballerina Language Server team and is a key contributor to Ballerina, which is an open-source programming language and platform for the cloud, and he is an active contributor to the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. Nipuna Marcus is Technical Lead at WSO2 and has more than five years of experience in front end development, programming languages, and developer tooling. He was a member of the Ballerina Language Server team and a key contributor to the Ballerina programming language.

Chapter 1: Developer Tools and Language Services.- Chapter 2: Understanding the Language Server Protocol.- Chapter 3: Implementing a Language Server.- Chapter 4: General Messages.- Chapter 5: Text Synchronization.- Chapter 6: Diagnostics, Smart Editing and Documentation.- Chapter 7: Refactoring and Code Fixes .- Chapter 8: Code Navigation and Navigation Helpers .- Chapter 9: Presentation and Selection .- Chapter 10: Workspace Operations.- Chapter 11: Advanced Concepts.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 239 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort	Berkley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Compilerbau
ISBN-10	1-4842-7791-0 / 1484277910
ISBN-13	978-1-4842-7791-1 / 9781484277911
Zustand	Neuware