How to develop against a local version of glsp.client?

[rsoika]

I try to test this Pullrequest against my own project and I want to give some feedback.

For this I need to build the glsp-client/packages/client and switch to version

  "dependencies": {
    "@eclipse-glsp/client": "2.1.0-next"
  }

I understand that yarn link should be my friend here. I also found this bash script and adapted it to my own project. But nothing is working :-(

I will break down the problem to a very simple scenario.
I want to build my 'model module' which only has only the dependency to "@eclipse-glsp/client": "2.1.0-next"

From the documentation of the yarn link command it should work the following way:

$ cd ~/git/glsp-client/packages/client
$ yarn install

next I call the link comando

$ yarn link
yarn link v1.22.19
success Registered "@eclipse-glsp/client".
info You can now run `yarn link "@eclipse-glsp/client"` in the projects where you want to use this package and it will be used instead.
Done in 0.04s.

OK - fine!

Now I switch into my model module and call the yarn link command again

$ cd
$ cd git/open-bpmn/open-bpmn.glsp-client/open-bpmn-model/
$ yarn link "@eclipse-glsp/client"
yarn link v1.22.19
success Using linked package for "@eclipse-glsp/client".
Done in 0.03s.

As a result of this command the version 2.1.0-next is now part of my directory ./open-bpmn-model/@eclipse-glsp/client

this looks all prommessing so far. But now wen call yarn install in my model module:

$ yarn install 
Couldn't find any versions for "@eclipse-glsp/client" that matches "2.1.0-next"
? Please choose a version of "@eclipse-glsp/client" from this list: (Use arrow keys)
❯ 2.1.0-next.12ca798.289 
  2.1.0-next.303 
  2.1.0-next.302 
  2.1.0-next.301 
  2.1.0-next.300 

Why does yarn not use my existing local version?? Even yarn install --force` has no effect :-(

[tortmayr]

Hi @rsoika,
I think the problem here is that you/we are using a mono-repository setup where all package dependency are managed in the package root.
So instead of linking the directly in your module you should do it in the root directory:

cd git/open-bpmn/open-bpmn.glsp-client/
yarn link @eclipse-glsp/client`
yarn install

You can also check with yarn why @eclipse-glsp/client to see which versions of the package are resolved in your project