Overview (LSP APIs)

LSP APIs
Package	Description
org.netbeans.api.lsp
org.netbeans.spi.lsp

LanguageServerAPIs The Lanugage Server APIs provides basic facilities for getting or supplying information used by language server implementations.

What is New (see all changes)?

Jan 2 '24 Added Completion.getLabelDetail() and Completion.getLabelDescription() methods.
Completion.getLabelDetail() to get an optional string describing function signatures or type annotations. Completion.getLabelDescription() to get an optional string describing fully qualified names or file path.
Dec 14 '23 Adding ErrorProvider.Context.getHintsConfigFile() method
An ErrorProvider.Context.getHintsConfigFile() method introduced that allows to get hints preference file config.
Dec 1 '23 Added CodeActionProvider interface
CodeActionProvider has been added to allow server provide arbitrary code actions for a given document and range.
Nov 30 '23 Added CommandProvider interface
CommandProvider has been added to allow server provide arbitrary commands runnable from a client.
Sep 21 '23 Added SignatureInformation and SignatureInformationCollector
A SignatureInformation class and SignatureInformationCollector interface introduced that allows to compute and collect signature information.

Use Cases

XXX no answer for arch-usecases

Exported Interfaces

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Group of java interfaces

Interface Name

In/Out

Stability

Specified in What Document?

LanguageServerAPIs

Exported

Official

The Lanugage Server APIs provides basic facilities for getting or supplying information used by language server implementations.

Implementation Details

Where are the sources for the module?

The sources for the module are in the Apache Git repositories or in the GitHub repositories.

What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one, in addition to or instead of a plain module dependency?

XXX no answer for deploy-dependencies

Read more about the implementation in the answers to architecture questions.

LSP APIsOfficial