How is goto definition for remote URIs supposed to be handled by monaco-languageclient

[MangoIV]

Hi! I wanted to ask whether there's some "idiomatic" way for the following scenario with monaco-languageclient:

• a languageserver is running on a backend
• the user uses goto definition to a definition that is located on a file: URI on the backend.

Currently nothing is happening when I do this. Ideally I would like the frontend to load this file into a new buffer.

[CGNonofr]

Any error in the console? you probably have a file not found error. You'll have to implement a provider able to get that file content from the backend

[MangoIV]

@CGNonofr, sadly no error at all, it just "doesn't work" (while it does work locally, in vscode)

[CGNonofr]

I'm not sure an error is displayed if the file doesn't exists though. What is sure is that it needs a way to get the actual file content

[MangoIV]

Yes - do you have a pointer on where to start to get the file contents somehow?

[CGNonofr]

It still should be done manually (related to https://github.com/TypeFox/monaco-languageclient/issues/834)

you can use the registerFileSystemOverlay method from @codingame/monaco-vscode-files-service-override to register your filesystem which will fetch the file content by any mean you want

[MangoIV]

thank you!

[MangoIV]

I will close this when I found a solution and will post it here for future reference.

[kaisalmen]

Issue review before new release. I will close this now. @MangoIV feel free to post a solution later.