TS Server: Add way for plugins to provided additional metadata in responses #21999
Labels
API
Relates to the public API for TypeScript
In Discussion
Not yet reached consensus
Suggestion
An idea for TypeScript
Milestone
Problem
TS Server plugins sometimes want to provide additional metadata on responses beyond that found in the official TS Server API. Two examples:
Emmet needs to pass a special
isIncomplete
property to VS Code. This property tells VS Code to re-trigger completions when ever the user types - Emmet in typescript styled plugin typescript-styled-plugin#33 (comment)The styled plugin would like to pass color metadata information for color completions so that a preview of these colors are shown in the suggestion UI
Right now, I believe the TS server strips all unrecognized properties from response objects
Proposed fix
Either:
Make the TS server serialize all properties on response objects, recognized or not.
Add a special
metadata
property to responses that a plugin can use to pass additional information along./cc @ramya-rao-a
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