This extension aims to implement a complete language service for the Apache Velocity template language.
Functionality
This Language Server works with .vm or .vt extension files. It has the following language features:
Syntax and Semantic highlighting
Completions for variables, directives and methods
Code folding
Parsing diagnostics
Snippets
Release Notes
Fixes grammar to allow empty dictionary literal
Improves diagnostic errors for closing blocks like loops and ifs
Removes allowing else attached to foreach directive, since there was no velocity reference found for it
Limitations
In the future hopefully some, or all, of these limitations will be addressed:
Only single files are supported now. Workspace scanning or global symbols are not available.
Only syntax error checking is available. No semantic checks are implemented yet.
Velocity does not type its variables, making method inference hard. Method autocomplete currently uses a global list of symbols.
Credits
The syntax highlighting was based on the grammar from project sodatea/vscode-velocity. It was translated to a tmGrammar.json format and indented to facilitate readability. A few bugs were fixed and a few simplifications were made.
