JQ syntax editor/plugin for jetbrains products

[chb0github]

This is a feature request for support and integration with jetbrains editorsfor jq syntax. Jetbrains offers a plugin framework for such things, and it would be a great way to further support the jq community:

Specifically:

1. Syntax highlighting
2. syntax error/validation
3. debug

Perhaps a new repo for the effort, so it can grow independently. I recognize this doesn't specifically align to this repo, but I saw no where else to publish the request

[wader]

If it supports LSP there is https://github.com/wader/jq-lsp which i use for https://github.com/wader/vscode-jq which also has example of grammar for syntax highlighting.

[kishaningithub]

Can this be brought under the umbrella of jqlang org ?

[wader]

Yeap might be good idea. I've thought about if https://github.com/wader/jqjq should be move there also. But then i guess it should be seen as more "official"? not sure what other maintainers think?

jq-lsp started as quick hack that happen to work weridly well, so unfortunately the code is a mess atm and hard to work it. Ideally i think it would make more sense to rewrite it using tree-sitter etc. I wonder how hard it would be to plumb together tree-sitter with a jq implementation to still implement the language sever part in jq?

[nicowilliams]

If it supports LSP there is https://github.com/wader/jq-lsp which i use for https://github.com/wader/vscode-jq which also has example of grammar for syntax highlighting.

My goodness, you wrote a language server for jq?! That's awesome!

[blurayne]

I guess it was more targeted at fq ;)

[nicowilliams]

If it supports LSP there is https://github.com/wader/jq-lsp which i use for https://github.com/wader/vscode-jq which also has example of grammar for syntax highlighting.

We should link this from the README!

[wader]

Currently the installation of both jq-lsp and vscode-jq is not very polished, no packing and i'm not sure it even works on windows :). Maybe we could for now add some section to the wiki with development support stuff?

btw have you seen https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq? maybe could cherry pick some stuff from there also

[trothwell]

I was able to get file type association working with this plugin: https://github.com/redhat-developer/lsp4ij

Unfortunately, I'm unable to get JqJSON listed as a "language" so other plugins that have nested language support won't work.

[wader]

@trothwell nice, if it works well i'm happy to add it to jq-lsp:s README.md

[angelozerr]

@trothwell I suggest that you create a PR to LSP4IJ to add it your config as LSP template. Please read https://github.com/redhat-developer/lsp4ij/blob/main/docs/UserDefinedLanguageServerTemplate.md#how-to-contribute-a-user-defined-language-server-template

I don't know how to install jq-lsp, but you can write also an installer.json to install it automaticly.

If someone explains me:

• the command which starts jq-lsp
• how to install jq-lsp (should we install some runtime, is it possible to do that with terminal command), I could create a quick PR in LSP4IJ.

[wader]

So for lsp4ilj i guess just something like this if jq-lsp is in $PATH

  "programArgs": {
    "default": "jq-slp"
  },

let me know how it goes, it would not surprise if something acts weird so we need to tweak something

Note that i haven't tried jq-lsp with windows at all yet.

[angelozerr]

Indeed I have tried that and it is working. I will soon push my work.

[wader]

and feel free to do a jq-lsp PR to add it to README.md

[angelozerr]

See doc at https://github.com/redhat-developer/lsp4ij/blob/main/docs/user-defined-ls/jq-lsp.md

[wader]

Nice looking docs 👍