Is it possible to force metals to use bazel?

[abrassel]

I'm working on configuring Scala to work with Helix. Unfortunately, helix doesn't yet support showMessageRequest, and metals is failing since it cannot decide which build tool to use:

189   │ 2025-03-15T00:39:20.680 helix_lsp::transport [INFO] metals <- {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"5","method":"window/showMessageReque
       │ st","params":{"actions":[{"title":"sbt"},{"title":"mvn"},{"title":"bazel"}],"type":3,"message":"Multiple build definition

I would like to force metals to use bazel at startup. Is that possible? I tried the following:

[language-server.metals]
command = "metals"
config = { "isHttpEnabled" = true, metals = { inlayHints = { typeParameters = {enable = true} , hintsInPatternMatch = {enable = true} }, default-bsp-to-build-tool = true  } }

But this doesn't seem to have made a difference. Thanks for your help!

[tgodzik]

Looks like this is an unexpected case 😓 There is no way to have default server to use currently and without message request there is
no way to choose.

You could potentially open in another editor, import it and then switch to helix