Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 11.02.22 um 09:15 schrieb Kunal Mehta: > > Seems like what you're asking for is > > <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_intelligence.html>, right? > > > > AFAICT that functionality is available in self-hosted GitLab, it just > > requires > > someone writing a LSIF implementation for PHP, as it's not already listed > > on > > <https://lsif.dev/#implementations-server>. > Oh nice! I did a few minutes of digging on LSIF and sourcegraph, and it does > sound quite good! Sourcegraph provides a search backend backend, navigation > frontend, integration API and plugins for GitLab as well as Phabricato and > even > browser extensions. We could integrate it with codesearch as well, via its > API. > And LSIF is an open format for representing the kind if info we need. > > Peter, what do you think of targeting LSIF instead of MongoDB?
Not sure. I need to research. My main concern is that LSIF is an index-based graph. So it needs some stuff on top of it to turn it into something usable for humans. Sourcegraph is > > I mean, just as an experiment. We still need to look closely whether LSIF > really > covers our needs. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/02/19/lsif says > that: > /Same as LSP, LSIF doesn't contain any program symbol information nor does > the > LSIF define any symbol semantics (for example, what makes the definition of a > symbol or whether a method overrides another method). The LSIF therefore > doesn't > define a symbol database, which is consistent with the LSP approach./ > > That's actually quite a bummer. The most critical kind of search after "where > is > > this called" is "what overrides this method"... Do I understand correctly > that > LSIF doesn't do that? Seems like it does with limitations. > > > PS: Sourcegraph's licensing model is a bit confusing though, seems like it's > Apache for the core, and "open but not free" for some extra bits. Generally speaking, seems like LSIF can work. I'll research and get back next week. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
