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add --wait stdio #5188

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@nadako nadako commented May 1, 2016

This PR adds support for --wait stdio argument which makes haxe completion server use stdin and stderr instead of sockets for communication.

This solves a number of annoying problems for IDE, for example:

  • multiple instances of an IDE don't need to somehow determine a free port to use for a new haxe server
  • we don't need to care about other programs already listening to the port we'd like to use for haxe
  • when starting haxe server as a subprocess, we don't need to wait/retry connecting to the server and can invoke queries right away without any race conditions (e.g. https://github.com/nadako/haxe-languageserver/issues/7)

The protocol is the following:

  • everything is binary
  • ide sends queries to stdin, haxe replies to stderr
  • ide and haxe exchange messages consiting of two parts: data length (4 byte little-endian int) and data
  • data is the same as with socket - newline separated hxml argumens and optional stdin display file content, (separated by \x01).

@nadako nadako added enhancement feature-ide IDE / Editor support labels May 1, 2016
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nadako commented May 1, 2016

Should work with this branch of the language server: https://github.com/nadako/haxe-languageserver/tree/wait_stdio

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nadako commented May 1, 2016

On a related note, I wonder if we should run our display tests in all possible flavors (simple cmdline, socket server, stdio server).

@Simn Simn merged commit bc61e42 into HaxeFoundation:development May 1, 2016
@nadako nadako deleted the wait_stdio branch May 1, 2016 19:53
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SlavaRa commented Oct 26, 2017

@nadako Maybe you'll update the help in the compiler?

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