Groovy Language Server

A language server for Groovy. It is designed specifically for Moonshine IDE, but it may work in other editors and environments.

The following language server protocol requests are currently supported:

• completion
• definition
• documentSymbol
• hover
• references
• rename
• signatureHelp
• symbol
• typeDefinition

The following configuration options are supported:

• groovy.java.home (string - sets a custom JDK path)
• groovy.classpath (string[] - sets a custom classpath to include .jar files)

Build

To build from the command line, run the following command:

./gradlew build

This will create build/libs/groovy-language-server-all.jar.

Run

To run the language server, use the following command:

java -jar groovy-language-server-all.jar

Language server protocol messages are passed using standard I/O by default.

Editors and IDEs

A sample language extension for Visual Studio Code is available in the vscode-extension directory. There are no plans to release this extension to the VSCode Marketplace.

Instructions for setting up the language server in Sublime Text is available in the sublime-text directory. Configuring the language server in other editors will likely be very similar.

Moonshine IDE natively provides a Grails project type that automatically configures the language server.