How to create and use another connection provider instead of the WebSocket one?

[Tnze]

Hi!
I'm trying to add LSP supports for a IDE project I'm developing based on the Tauri framework.
In Tauri, there is a better way to do the IPC instead of using json-rpc based on WebSocket connection.

So does monaco-languageclient supports this case? How should I do?
Should I implement the IConnectionProvider and pass it to constructor of MonacoLanguageClient, or directly use BaseLanguageClient? I'm confusing and unable to find out.

And what is the different between monaco-languageclient and vscode-languageclient?
Should I install vscode-languageclient as a dependency of my project? Is that normal a language client for monaco-editor is depending on vscode things?

Thanks for your help.

[msujew]

@Tnze vscode-languageclient is the package used for implementing vscode extensions that add support for a language to vscode via a language server. It acts as a language client for vscode (as the name suggests).

This project (i.e. the monaco-languageclient library) does the same but just for the monaco editor as a standalone component.

Installing vscode-languageclient is therefore not necessary.

Should I implement the IConnectionProvider and pass it to constructor of MonacoLanguageClient

Ideally yes. The MessageTransports object returned by the IConnectionProvider#get function determines how the monaco language client communicates to the language server. If you can implement that using IPC via Tauri, then go for it.

cc @kaisalmen Can you convert this to a discussion? I don't seem to have maintainer rights on this repo.

[Tnze]

@msujew Thank you! So you means:

1. Installing vscode-languageclient is therefore not necessary.
2. I should implement IConnectionProvider#get.

But to do so, I think I should import MessageTransports type somewhere? As I can see it's belongs to the vscode-languageclient:

I known its ok to avoid using MessageTransports type according to some duck type feature. But if it's actually what you said

This project (i.e. the monaco-languageclient library) does the same but just for the monaco editor as a standalone component.

It's weird right?

Thank you!