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x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its type in outline view #40931

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emil14 opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 5 comments
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x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its type in outline view #40931

emil14 opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 5 comments
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FeatureRequest gopls Issues related to the Go language server, gopls. Thinking Tools This label describes issues relating to any tools in the x/tools repository.

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emil14 commented Aug 18, 2020

It would be nice if we could look at some type in outline view and see all of the methods declared on that type in one place.

At the moment type and its methods separated

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hyangah commented Aug 18, 2020

@emil14 Are you using the language server? ("go.useLanguageServer": true).

I am asking because the extension computes the outline info in two different ways, so I need to know it to direct this FR to the right place.

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heschi commented Aug 18, 2020

This is conceptually difficult: in Go, a method can be defined in a different file than the declaration. In that case, there is no struct node to put it under. In gopls, we decided to leave methods at the top level.

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emil14 commented Aug 20, 2020

@hyangah yes, useLanguageServer set to true :)

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hyangah commented Aug 20, 2020

@emil14 Thanks! Yeah, I observed that when not using the language server, the outline view grouped methods under its struct type. As @heschik said, Go's code structure is different from other languages, so the document-based symbol hierarchy (DocumentSymbolProvider and its corresponding LSP method) doesn't fit perfectly.

I will transfer this to gopls issue tracker so we can discuss there how to improve this.

@hyangah hyangah changed the title Feature request: Move methods inside its types in outline view x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its types in outline view (DocumentSymbolRequest) Aug 20, 2020
@hyangah hyangah transferred this issue from golang/vscode-go Aug 20, 2020
@gopherbot gopherbot added Tools This label describes issues relating to any tools in the x/tools repository. gopls Issues related to the Go language server, gopls. labels Aug 20, 2020
@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone Aug 20, 2020
@stamblerre stamblerre modified the milestones: Unreleased, gopls/v.0.5.0 Aug 25, 2020
@stamblerre stamblerre changed the title x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its types in outline view (DocumentSymbolRequest) x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its types in outline view Aug 25, 2020
@stamblerre stamblerre removed this from the gopls/v.0.5.0 milestone Aug 25, 2020
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Thanks for the feature request, @emil14. For now, our approach to the outline view has been to show symbols in the order that they appear in the file. This would require us to change that behavior. Before moving forward with this, I'd like to hear from other users if they think this would be a net improvement. Notably, we can't show the methods nested within the type declaration because that breaks VS Code's breadcrumbs feature.

@stamblerre stamblerre changed the title x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its types in outline view x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its struct type in outline view Aug 28, 2020
@stamblerre stamblerre changed the title x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its struct type in outline view x/tools/gopls: consider moving methods inside its type in outline view Aug 28, 2020
@stamblerre stamblerre added this to the gopls/unplanned milestone Oct 21, 2020
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