Proper Parameter Support for Class Inheritance via "require" in "lua-language-server"

[xzzwandi]

Overview:
I'm using the "lua-language-server" plugin and encountering an issue with class inheritance notation. The inheritance is performed using the syntax class("DemoComp", require("BaseComp")).

Problem Description:
The issue lies in the way "lua-language-server" handles the require function within the class inheritance context. Despite configuring the "Lua.runtime.special" settings, the plugin does not provide accurate hints for classes defined this way. This is because require requires the script path as its first parameter to function properly, making the standard configuration ineffective.

Desired Solution:
I'd like to suggest enhancing the "lua-language-server" plugin's ability to correctly parse and provide class name hints even in cases where class inheritance is written in the form of class("DemoComp", require("BaseComp")).

Suggested Approach:
To achieve this, the plugin could be designed to recognize and parse the parameters of the require function, allowing it to accurately determine the base class in class inheritance scenarios involving require.

[carsakiller]

This seems quite hard to pull off, as the language server would have to parse the string into a @class and then inherit the values from the required class.

Something like this could work though:

---@return any
local function class(base, parent) end

---@class BaseComp

---@class DemoComp : BaseComp

---@type DemoComp
local myClass = class("DemoComp", require("BaseComp"))

This nearly works, but I can't think of a way to merge T and P so that the return contains the fields of both the child and parent class:

---@generic T, P
---@param base `T`
---@param parent `P`
---@return T # No way to merge T and P
local function class(base, parent)
return base
end

---@class BaseComp
---@class DemoComp

local myClass = class("DemoComp", require("BaseComp"))

[sumneko]

I think what you want is

---@class DemoComp: BaseComp
local myClass = class("DemoComp", require("BaseComp"))