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:
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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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Assessment
- Tech stack
- node.js, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100