microsoft / microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node

Allow initializationOptions, fillInitializeParams, etc to be async

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Description

I want to do some async work to compute the initialization options and client capabilities.

Since BaseLanguageClient#initialize is already async, I'd like to make these calls also async:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node/blob/f2ff7d55464a1f58f978cb6635bd8865f050553c/client/src/common/client.ts#L1227-L1228

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node/blob/f2ff7d55464a1f58f978cb6635bd8865f050553c/client/src/common/client.ts#L1232

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Start in client/src/common/client.ts at the linked initialization code and read BaseLanguageClient#initialize. Trace initializationOptions, fillInitializeParams, and the client-capability setup to determine where async results must be awaited. Done means callers can perform asynchronous work for these hooks without breaking initialization or its existing behavior.

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Tech stack
node.js, typescript
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developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
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Estimated time
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