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@jian-lin jian-lin commented Jun 8, 2025

Closes #3598

I will update progress here.

2025-06-02 - 2025-06-08

  • Add basic boilerplate for signature help plugin
    • commit: 7a54a1d

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2025-06-09 - 2025-07-13

  • Finish signature help plugin MVP: show function signature and highlight the current parameter
    • commit: 9168b74

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@@ -764,6 +770,10 @@ instance PluginRequestMethod Method_TextDocumentDocumentSymbol where
si = SymbolInformation name' (ds ^. L.kind) Nothing parent (ds ^. L.deprecated) loc
in [si] <> children'

-- TODO(@linj) is this correct?
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I think this is reasonable. Really combineResponses should have a way to return an error. There are a bunch of methods where it really only makes sense if we have one handler.

We could try to combine responses: we would combine the signatures, and so long as only one of them indicated an active signature it would be okay. But that's a bit sketchy and I doubt we'll have several anyway!

TODO:
- handle more cases
- add successful and (currently failed) tests
- show documentation
@jian-lin jian-lin force-pushed the pr/signature-help branch from 7a02359 to 9168b74 Compare July 12, 2025 18:33
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I think really worth trying to start getting some tests in place!

case fromCurrentPosition positionMapping position of
Nothing -> pure Nothing
Just oldPosition -> do
let functionName =
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you probably want to do all these in one go, this looks like it will traverse the AST three times! I think you can just do one call to extractInfoFromSmallestContainingFunctionApplicationAst and get all the pieces together though?

if nodeHasAnnotation ("HsVar", "HsExpr") hieAst
then
case M.elems $ M.filter isUse $ getSourceNodeIds hieAst of
[identifierDetails] -> identType identifierDetails >>= (prettyType >>> Just)
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I suggest not printing the type here and instead returning the type itself. That would mean that when you're doing mkArguments you can pattern match on the type itself, not on the string representation. Then you don't need to worry about e.g. whether it prints on multiple lines or whatever.

(Just $ InL argumentNumber)

-- TODO(@linj) can type string be a multi-line string?
mkArguments :: UInt -> Text -> [ParameterInformation]
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I think this would be a lot simpler if you were just looking at the type itself!

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Although hmm, the offsets are into the string 😱 So maybe you would need to incrementally build up the ParameterInformations and the overall label, but that would probably still be nicer?

type Annotation = (FastStringCompat, FastStringCompat)

nodeHasAnnotation :: Annotation -> HieAST a -> Bool
nodeHasAnnotation annotation = sourceNodeInfo >>> maybe False (isAnnotationInNodeInfo annotation)
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nit: I think it tends to be easier to read a simple case expression than one of the pattern-matching functions like maybe. I usually only use maybe if it's partially-applied.

You can still avoid naming the HieAst parameter if you want using LambdaCase.

nodeHasAnnotation :: Annotation -> HieAST a -> Bool
nodeHasAnnotation annotation = sourceNodeInfo >>> maybe False (isAnnotationInNodeInfo annotation)

-- TODO(@linj): the left most node may not be the function node. example: (if True then f else g) x
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write a test!

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this is a great example btw. In this case I think we would have to give no signature help, I think, since it's only dynamically known which function we're getting.

if nodeHasAnnotation ("HsVar", "HsExpr") hieAst
then
case mapMaybe extractName $ M.keys $ M.filter isUse $ getSourceNodeIds hieAst of
[name] -> Just name -- TODO(@linj) will there be more than one name?
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I'm not 100% sure when/if this can happen. I think it might happen if we're looking at a typeclass method, in which case we could get the generic typeclass method and the specific one perhaps? That would be a good use-case for multilple signatures, e.g. if we have

foldMap @[] f ^

then we might want to see both the generic Foldable signature and the one for the list instance.

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I think my general suggestion would be: let's treat possibly-multiple node annotations as producing possibly-multiple signatures.

(Just $ InL argumentNumber)
]
(Just 0)
(Just $ InL argumentNumber)
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do we know if this is 0 or 1-indexed? specification doesn't say (of course 🙄 ) so I guess we'll have to test it in vscode to see

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