This repository contains code to generate Language Server Protocol types and classes for various languages.

You will need a python environment to run the generator. Here are the steps:

1. Create a python environment (min supported python 3.7): python -m venv .venv
2. Get this tool: python -m pip install git+https://github.com/microsoft/lsprotocol.git
3. Run your plugin: python -m generator --plugin dotnet --output-dir ./code

Clone this repository and run generator like a module.

>python -m generator --help
usage: __main__.py [-h] [--model [MODEL [MODEL ...]]] --plugin PLUGIN
                   [--output-dir OUTPUT_DIR]

Generate types from LSP JSON model.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --model [MODEL [MODEL ...]], -m [MODEL [MODEL ...]]
                        Path to a model JSON file. By default uses packaged
                        model file.
  --plugin PLUGIN, -p PLUGIN
                        Name of a builtin plugin module. By default uses all
                        plugins.
  --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR, -o OUTPUT_DIR
                        Path to a directory where the generated content is

This project uses nox as a task runner to run the code generator. You can install nox and run build_lsp session to generate code from spec available in the repo.

> python -m pip install nox
> nox --session build_lsp

You can format code, run tests, and other tasks using nox as well.

Follow these steps to generate boiler plate code for new plugin:

1. Create a virtual environment for python using python 3.7 and activate that environment.
   1. If you have python extension for VS Code installed then run Python: Create Environment command. Be sure to select all the requirements.txt files in the repo. This should, install all packages needed and select the environment for you.
2. Ensure nox is installed.
   1. Run nox --list, is nox is installed oyu should see a list of available sessions. Otherwise, run python -m pip install nox from the python 3.7 environment you created above.
3. Run nox --session create_plugin and follow the prompts to create a new plugin.

Example:

> nox --session create_plugin
nox > Running session create_plugin
nox > Creating virtual environment (virtualenv) using python.exe in .nox\create_plugin
Enter the name of the plugin: java
nox > Created plugin java.
nox > Session create_plugin was successful.

Language	Plugin Module	Package	Notes
Python	generator.plugins.python		Active
Rust	generator.plugins.rust		Development
Dotnet	generator.plugins.dotnet		Development