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Integrating Xtext generated language server with Generic Editor [message #1765602]

Mon, 12 June 2017 17:51

Santhosh Kumar

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I have been trying to integrate Eclipse Oxygen Generic Editor with Language Server generated by Xtext but unfortunately not been able to do it.

Is there an example of that integration that I can refer to, to make some progress? or any other help is much appreciated.

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Re: Integrating Xtext generated language server with Generic Editor [message #1765604 is a reply to message #1765602]

Mon, 12 June 2017 17:53

Christian Dietrich

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I did this 5 month ago and it was not that hard.
Can you give hints what your problem was

https://github.com/itemis/xtext-languageserver-example-lsp4e

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Re: Integrating Xtext generated language server with Generic Editor [message #1765626 is a reply to message #1765604]

Mon, 12 June 2017 21:02

Santhosh Kumar

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Thank you, that is what I was looking for.

I tried to create project and follow those same changes. When I start the application, it logs an error stating "Plugin com.test.mydsl, extension org.eclipse.ui.editors: Unknown content-type with id: com.test.mydsl" even though content id is define and is available in the plugin.

Apart from above issue, few questions.

1. So far my understanding is that Language Servers do not deal with syntax highlighting. For that we need to handle separately (that's why I think you have Highlighter class defined in the example)
2. The language servers, if they have to have access to source file via file system, how do they provide assistance to source files which are not saved (being still edited)?

Thank you for your time.

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