No syntax highlighting for the http file

[ashishbinu]

First of all thanks for this amazing plugin.

I was trying out this plugin but the http file is not getting syntax highlighted as shown in the image in readme. The response is getting highlighted correctly.

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, thank you for using it!

Have you tried using other colorscheme? Maybe yours is missing some highlighting groups.

Regards

[ashishbinu]

@NTBBloodbath I have a file with lot highlighting groups defined with different colors. When I don't source that file in init.lua the http file gets syntax highlighting. Is there a better I can solve this issue without removing my highlighting file from init.lua.

[NTBBloodbath]

Hmm that's weird, aren't you clearing some colors? Try opening a http file and then running :syntax on.

Also, are you lazy-loading rest.nvim?

I was doing some tests for a Treesitter parser for the http files to ditch these syntax/ files, but it's not usable yet.

[ashishbinu]

@NTBBloodbath I tried reinstalling rest.nvim using packer again. I added the below code into packer config.

use {
    "NTBBloodbath/rest.nvim",
    requires = { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" },
    config = function()
        require('rest-nvim').setup()
    end
}        

Error after doing :PackerCompile is shown below:

output.mp4

Then, when I add the ft = "http" in the rest.nvim packer config the :PackerCompile doesn't give any errors.

use {
    "NTBBloodbath/rest.nvim",
    ft = "http",
    requires = { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" },
    config = function()
        require('rest-nvim').setup()
    end
}

output.mp4

So , after installing rest.nvim by putting ft = "http" in packer config.
When I open http file now. It doesn't show syntax highlighing. There is also no filetype set for it. After doing setl ft=http it gives syntax highlighting. I have attached video below for this issue:

output.mp4

[ashishbinu]

For now I have added an autocmd to set filetype to httpand it gives syntax highlighting.

vim.api.nvim_exec([[
  augroup HttpFiletype
    autocmd!
    autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.http set ft=http
  augroup end
]],false)

Now the syntax highlighting works even if I lazy load plugin with ft=http or without lazyloading.

[mr-majkel]

@NTBBloodbath I can confirm this issue. The issue is there since moving to setup() approach - there is no event listening to fire
it automatically on http files, and the function is operating only on the current buffer. I think it was working ok with the ftdetect approach.

@ashishbinu if you comment the augroup section, restart nvim, go to the http buffer and type

:lua require('rest-nvim').setup()

this should give the proper highlighting.

[ashishbinu]

@ashishbinu if you comment the augroup section, restart nvim, go to the http buffer and type

:lua require('rest-nvim').setup()

this should give the proper highlighting.

Yes, running the above command enables the syntax highlighting.

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, can you try lazy-loading rest.nvim with the BufWinEnter event? That's my current setup for it and it's working fine. However I'll dig on it later without lazy-loading it ( I'll not be at home :( ).

	use({
		'NTBBloodbath/rest.nvim',
		requires = 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
		config = function()
			require('rest-nvim').setup()
		end,
		event = 'BufEnter',
	})

[ashishbinu]

Hey, can you try lazy-loading rest.nvim with the BufWinEnter event? That's my current setup for it and it's working fine. However I'll dig on it later without lazy-loading it ( I'll not be at home :( ).

	use({
		'NTBBloodbath/rest.nvim',
		requires = 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
		config = function()
			require('rest-nvim').setup()
		end,
		event = 'BufEnter',
	})

I tried this lazy loading in my config...but it didn't make a difference it only syntax highlighting when I opened file like nvim api.http but when I tried doing by first opening nvim and then navigating syntax highlighting didn't work. This was the same case without lazy loading also.

[NTBBloodbath]

Hmm that's some weird stuff. I'll leave it opened while I develop the http treesitter parser so we can revert the setup stuff and use a ftdetect file again

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, I was finally able to start with the tree-sitter parser. Still a lot of stuff to be done but hopefully it should be ready for daily usage in a few days, here's the current progress

Also here is the repository with the actual work if someone has knowledge parsing stuff, regex and tree-sitter and wants to help

[NTBBloodbath]

Just showing the progress btw, the only thing left is the JSON stuff ig

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, so after a while we are ready to go with the treesitter parser. I'll add instructions for using it (it seems that I'll need to send a PR to nvim-treesitter or something like that for adding it to be able to install it by using TSInstall without extra setup) and get rid of that weird lazy-loading :p