1 //===--- Transport.h - sending and receiving LSP messages -------*- C++ -*-===//
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4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // The language server protocol is usually implemented by writing messages as
10 // JSON-RPC over the stdin/stdout of a subprocess. However other communications
11 // mechanisms are possible, such as XPC on mac.
13 // The Transport interface allows the mechanism to be replaced, and the JSONRPC
14 // Transport is the standard implementation.
16 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
18 #ifndef LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANGD_TRANSPORT_H
19 #define LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANGD_TRANSPORT_H
22 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
23 #include "llvm/Support/JSON.h"
24 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
29 // A transport is responsible for maintaining the connection to a client
30 // application, and reading/writing structured messages to it.
32 // Transports have limited thread safety requirements:
33 // - messages will not be sent concurrently
34 // - messages MAY be sent while loop() is reading, or its callback is active
37 virtual ~Transport() = default;
39 // Called by Clangd to send messages to the client.
40 virtual void notify(llvm::StringRef Method
, llvm::json::Value Params
) = 0;
41 virtual void call(llvm::StringRef Method
, llvm::json::Value Params
,
42 llvm::json::Value ID
) = 0;
43 virtual void reply(llvm::json::Value ID
,
44 llvm::Expected
<llvm::json::Value
> Result
) = 0;
46 // Implemented by Clangd to handle incoming messages. (See loop() below).
47 class MessageHandler
{
49 virtual ~MessageHandler() = default;
50 // Handler returns true to keep processing messages, or false to shut down.
51 virtual bool onNotify(llvm::StringRef Method
, llvm::json::Value
) = 0;
52 virtual bool onCall(llvm::StringRef Method
, llvm::json::Value Params
,
53 llvm::json::Value ID
) = 0;
54 virtual bool onReply(llvm::json::Value ID
,
55 llvm::Expected
<llvm::json::Value
> Result
) = 0;
57 // Called by Clangd to receive messages from the client.
58 // The transport should in turn invoke the handler to process messages.
59 // If handler returns false, the transport should immediately exit the loop.
60 // (This is used to implement the `exit` notification).
61 // Otherwise, it returns an error when the transport becomes unusable.
62 virtual llvm::Error
loop(MessageHandler
&) = 0;
65 // Controls the way JSON-RPC messages are encoded (both input and output).
66 enum JSONStreamStyle
{
67 // Encoding per the LSP specification, with mandatory Content-Length header.
69 // Messages are delimited by a '---' line. Comment lines start with #.
73 // Returns a Transport that speaks JSON-RPC over a pair of streams.
74 // The input stream must be opened in binary mode.
75 // If InMirror is set, data read will be echoed to it.
77 // The use of C-style std::FILE* input deserves some explanation.
78 // Previously, std::istream was used. When a debugger attached on MacOS, the
79 // process received EINTR, the stream went bad, and clangd exited.
80 // A retry-on-EINTR loop around reads solved this problem, but caused clangd to
81 // sometimes hang rather than exit on other OSes. The interaction between
82 // istreams and signals isn't well-specified, so it's hard to get this right.
83 // The C APIs seem to be clearer in this respect.
84 std::unique_ptr
<Transport
>
85 newJSONTransport(std::FILE *In
, llvm::raw_ostream
&Out
,
86 llvm::raw_ostream
*InMirror
, bool Pretty
,
87 JSONStreamStyle
= JSONStreamStyle::Standard
);
90 // Returns a Transport for macOS based on XPC.
91 // Clangd with this transport is meant to be run as bundled XPC service.
92 std::unique_ptr
<Transport
> newXPCTransport();