lidiapopescu / VsCodeTraining

VsCode Extension development training. Basic functionalities.

Complete example for VsCode Custom language support Extension

Configuration for testing

For Server Build:

% mvn clean install

For VsCode Plugin test:

% cd VsCodeDemo

% npm install

It generates

• 'node_modules'
• 'out'
• package-lock.json

and makes possible to run/debug the extension

% code .

F5

Configurations for development

For VsCode generation

% npm install -g yo generator-code

% yo code

For VsCode clearing npm cache

% rm -rf node_modules

% rm -rf package-lock.json

% npm cache clean --force

For generating java sources from grammer file

• Install and configure antlr V4 https://www.antlr.org/index.html
• Install ANTLR4 grammar syntax support https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mike-lischke.vscode-antlr4
• Check if parser-generation is enabled https://github.com/mike-lischke/vscode-antlr4/blob/master/doc/parser-generation.md
• In order to generate parser files with ANTLR4 Java must be installed on the system and be executable without an explicit path (install it via npm install antlr4ts). % npm install antlr4ts

For importing lsp4j and solving dependencies

https://github.com/eclipse/lsp4j/blob/main/Contributing.md#Eclipse

• Install gradle https://gradle.org/install/
• Install Buildship plugin, gradle, xtend