The End of Times

04 July 2018 – 10 July 2018

So, the end of Phase-2 of GSoC 18 is about to begin in a few hours, It feels like the second phase passed blazing fast. This period got more packed than I could have imagined mostly due to some personal things that required my attention. I feel it quite important to mention that my mentor @gaocegege was quite positive about it and helped me in every manner possible even when his schedule got a bit too packed. @gaocegege Thanks!.

Second phase was mostly about supporting formatting and producing a vscode client for coalals. I think we achieved those goals to an acceptable level, although we have our PR’s pending for review, the architecture was discussed beforehand so no major issues must’ve propagated through. Currently, the newer version of coala-vs-code is installable from the vscode marketplace you will be required to install coalals manually and merge the code on you local dev env to test it out. This should flawlessly work when coalals is made available via PyPi.

Developments

Here are the developments from the last week of development specifically.

1. Support window/showMessageRequest: window/showMessageRequest can be used to alert the end user about some event or an option and the feedback can be collected and processed. The support comes to the LangServer class but is currently not used in any place as is. This could be useful for future developments such as in event of Phase-3.
2. Tests coala-ls yet again has complete coverage of tests. It now features almost 80+ tests.
3. Docs coala-ls also features complete docs.
4. Performance Metrics We have the performance metrics in place for the additional features introduced in this phase i.e textDocument/formatting.
5. coala-vs-code tests Because of the pending PR status of coalals, End to End tests are tough to design because of the local merges required. Hence, basic unit tests are available for coala-vs-code.
6. Demonstration Video As described in the requirements, we have a video demonstrating the capabilities of the coala-ls and coala-vs-code.

Links

• coala-ls: http://github.com/coala/coala-ls/pulls/
• coala-vs-code: https://github.com/coala/coala-vs-code/pulls
• Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeybdlCB96U & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnFQqe0IjU

Huh, we are here, this marks the end of the blog post.