Support that servers can provide file system implementations and read from remote file systems as well

[dbaeumer]

Currently servers are restricted to read files from their local file systems. LSP should offer ways that servers can:

• implement file systems
• read from and write to other remote file systems.

[dbaeumer]

@NTaylorMullen

[rwols]

implement file systems

I don't understand this bullet point, can you clarify? Do you mean that a client can query the remote server's FS? Why would the client be interested in that?

read from and write to other remote file systems.

This makes sense... A client can provide a kind of "virtual FS" to the remote-running language server and the server can then query the VFS.

[rwols]

implement file systems

Ah, if the entire project is also remote, then it makes sense as a client would have to discover the directory layout somehow.

[NTaylorMullen]

@rwols if you're curious: https://github.com/NTaylorMullen/LSPVirtualDocuments/blob/master/Documents/FileSystemSpec.md

[aslakhellesoy]

Is anyone working actively on this? It would be amazing to have this feature in order to make my vscode extension work as a web extension (it relies on a language server that needs to read files).