fwcd / fwcd/kotlin-language-server
Report unused imports as diagnostics
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
IntellIJ IDEA reports unused imports as a diagnostic for the user. While formatters can remove unused imports automatically, it still might be nice to have a diagnostic/warning on it in your editor.
Could not find any additional compiler flags to automatically include it in the current diagnostics. There might be a need for a lightweight analyzer that adds to the current diagnostics (it seems like [IntelliJs codebase does that](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-kotlin/blob/e2c105911e1fca5b7fe6b9dc10cf9f75463a3c13/idea/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/idea/inspections/KotlinUnusedImportInspection.kt), but we can probably take some shortcuts in our implementation)
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Research direction
Start by reading the linked IntelliJ reference, KotlinUnusedImportInspection.kt, and trace how the language server currently produces diagnostics. Determine how unused imports can be detected and surfaced as editor warnings, then verify that an editor reports them while formatters can still remove them.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100