Document symbols in editor do not show after starting VSCode with file open about vscode-languageserver-node HOT 8 CLOSED

Since the request is async you can answer the request when your server is ready. VS Code is not blocked in that state.

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If you want to be nice your server can show progress if the initialization happens during the initialize request.

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If you want to be nice your server can show progress if the initialization happens during the initialize request.

How can I do this? I can only print to the console.

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Since the request is async you can answer the request when your server is ready. VS Code is not blocked in that state.

I tried getting this to work but it is not working because "connection.onDocumentSymbol" is not an async function so I can not "wait" inside it until parsing finished. How is one supposed to solve this?

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The handler you pass in can be an async function. Something like

connection.onDocumentSymbols(async (params) => { ... });

The connection will then await the result of the async function.

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For the progress you can enable this via a client options:

And then the server will receive a progress token in its initialize request like here:

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How is this mapping to an "async/await" system?

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How is this mapping to an "async/await" system?

For the handlers yes.

For the work done progress no. The partial result progress maps to async/await hover it is not supported in VS Code.

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