Student trying to get the project running

[glsp-bot]

Hi I'm a student interested in this project. I'd like to adapt my own graphical editor to run on GLSP. I've been trying to run the examples given on the GLSP website. My goal at the moment is to observe the communication between the client and the language server.
I have attempted running all the examples listed on the GLSP website.

• For the coffee editor, I can get it running but I haven't been able to observe the communication.

• For ecore-glsp I can get the editor running, but I don't see graphical models, I can just see the example json representation of the graphics.

• Mainly I'm interested at looking at the main project. I set up all the repositories as suggested in the readme of the umbrella project. I built both the server and the client. I can run the theia-client but I'm not quite sure how to run the server. The documentation seems a bit out of date and I don't have much experience with java.

I would really appreciate any help on running any one of these three examples in a way that I can inspect the communication between the client and the language server. Thank you in advance for your help.

original thread by kejni-d

[planger]

Hi,
to learn more about the protocol, please check out the documentation of the protocol. If you want to observe the traffic during the runtime, I guess the easiest way is to run the example in your browser, switch to the dev tools (F12) go to sources and open theia-diagram-server.ts (Ctrl-P) and set a logpoint in sendMessage() and messageReceived() logging the JSON.stringify(message).
About your issue opening an Ecore, I'm not sure unfortunately. Can you give more details on what you are trying?
To run the GLSP server, did you try following the steps in https://github.com/eclipse-glsp/glsp#building-and-running-the-glsp-backend? I believe they should be pretty much up to date. There are two options, either you build the jar and run it from the command line or you import the Java project in your IDE and run the launcher class.
I hope this helps!