Developing extensions for writing GAML in other text editors

[minhduc0711]

Hello guys, the other day @RoiArthurB mentioned the possibility of creating some extensions that allow writing GAML with cool features like syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and linting in other text editors (e.g. VSCode, Sublime, Vim...).
Such an extension would be really useful to me, so I'd love to help out!

This might be a nice starting point https://github.com/svenefftinge/xtext-lsp-workshop

[RoiArthurB]

Ping @hqnghi88

[hqnghi88]

bash: ping: command not found

[RoiArthurB]

Here's a more up-to-date example : https://github.com/cdietrich/xtext-languageserver-example

[RoiArthurB]

@minhduc0711 I just saw that, since XText 2.11 it should be natively compatible with lsp https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-core/wiki/Language-Server-Protocol 🤔🤔🤔
GAMA use the 2.24 version, so it should be easy to do 🤷🤷🤷

[minhduc0711]

Fyi, here is the accompanying article for the example repo you linked above.

[hqnghi88]

Hello, you two guys, can you update your work, as Arthur said you have try something and too many error with gaml xtext

[minhduc0711]

We tried some stuff in parallel, so I'm not sure what went wrong on Arthur's machine.

On my side, I followed this tutorial https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/340_lsp_support.html, but I suppose I am having some dependency issues when running the LSP:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.lsp4j.services.LanguageServer

So perhaps I will need a few days to figure something out.

[minhduc0711]

One more thing, please correct these two facts if I am wrong:

• The GAML syntax is defined entirely in msi.gama.lang.gaml
• The fancy editing features (e.g. code completion) is defined entirely in ummisco.gama.ui.modeling

[hqnghi88]

We tried some stuff in parallel, so I'm not sure what went wrong on Arthur's machine.

On my side, I followed this tutorial https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/340_lsp_support.html, but I suppose I am having some dependency issues when running the LSP:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.lsp4j.services.LanguageServer

So perhaps I will need a few days to figure something out.

OK

One more thing, please correct these two facts if I am wrong:

• The GAML syntax is defined entirely in msi.gama.lang.gaml
• The fancy editing features (e.g. code completion) is defined entirely in ummisco.gama.ui.modeling

Yes you are totally right