how to setup ansible-language-server ?

[lwandrebeck]

Hi,

I’d like to get completion and such for ansible, but so far I’ve been unable to get it working.
ansible-language-server is installed, added it in [language-server] section like that:
ansible-language-server = { command = "ansible-language-server", args = ["--stdio"] }
then:

[[language]]
name = "ansible"
scope = "source.yaml"
file-types = ["yml", "yaml"]
roots = []
comment-token = "#"
indent = { tab-width = 2, unit = "  " }
language-servers = [ "ansible-language-server" ]
injection-regex = "yml|yaml"

[[grammar]]
name = "ansible"
source = { git = "https://github.com/ikatyang/tree-sitter-yaml", rev = "0e36bed171768908f331ff7dff9d956bae016efb" }

hx --health seems happy, but I don’t get completion for ansible. Could someone give me a hand, please ?
Thanks a lot !

[lwandrebeck]

Oh, btw I tried too to add it as a 2nd language server in yaml part of helix config, without success.

[the-mikedavis]

What does the log file say when running in verbose mode? (hx -v)

[lwandrebeck]

Hi @the-mikedavis !
with

[language-server]

ansible-language-server = { command = "ansible-language-server", args = ["--stdio"] }

...
[[language]]
name = "yaml"
...
language-servers = [ "ansible-language-server", "yaml-language-server" ]

(which seems the best bet to me to get it properly running given the « familiarity » with yaml)

hx -v gives (reformated for readability) :
2023-08-17T07:42:46.283 helix_lsp::transport [INFO] ansible-language-server ->

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "initialize",
    "params": {
        "capabilities": {
            "general": {
                "positionEncodings": [
                    "utf-8",
                    "utf-32",
                    "utf-16"
                ]
            },
            "textDocument": {
                "codeAction": {
                    "codeActionLiteralSupport": {
                        "codeActionKind": {
                            "valueSet": [
                                "",
                                "quickfix",
                                "refactor",
                                "refactor.extract",
                                "refactor.inline",
                                "refactor.rewrite",
                                "source",
                                "source.organizeImports"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    "dataSupport": true,
                    "disabledSupport": true,
                    "isPreferredSupport": true,
                    "resolveSupport": {
                        "properties": [
                            "edit",
                            "command"
                        ]
                    }
                },
                "completion": {
                    "completionItem": {
                        "deprecatedSupport": true,
                        "insertReplaceSupport": true,
                        "resolveSupport": {
                            "properties": [
                                "documentation",
                                "detail",
                                "additionalTextEdits"
                            ]
                        },
                        "snippetSupport": true,
                        "tagSupport": {
                            "valueSet": [
                                1
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    "completionItemKind": {}
                },
                "hover": {
                    "contentFormat": [
                        "markdown"
                    ]
                },
                "inlayHint": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": false
                },
                "publishDiagnostics": {
                    "versionSupport": true
                },
                "rename": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": false,
                    "honorsChangeAnnotations": false,
                    "prepareSupport": true
                },
                "signatureHelp": {
                    "signatureInformation": {
                        "activeParameterSupport": true,
                        "documentationFormat": [
                            "markdown"
                        ],
                        "parameterInformation": {
                            "labelOffsetSupport": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "window": {
                "workDoneProgress": true
            },
            "workspace": {
                "applyEdit": true,
                "configuration": true,
                "didChangeConfiguration": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": false
                },
                "didChangeWatchedFiles": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": true,
                    "relativePatternSupport": false
                },
                "executeCommand": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": false
                },
                "inlayHint": {
                    "refreshSupport": false
                },
                "symbol": {
                    "dynamicRegistration": false
                },
                "workspaceEdit": {
                    "documentChanges": true,
                    "failureHandling": "abort",
                    "normalizesLineEndings": false,
                    "resourceOperations": [
                        "create",
                        "rename",
                        "delete"
                    ]
                },
                "workspaceFolders": true
            }
        },
        "clientInfo": {
            "name": "helix",
            "version": "23.05 (13e7edab)"
        },
        "processId": 2470385,
        "rootPath": "/home/lwandrebeck/personal_environment_tweaks",
        "rootUri": "file:///home/lwandrebeck/personal_environment_tweaks",
        "workspaceFolders": [
            {
                "name": "personal_environment_tweaks",
                "uri": "file:///home/lwandrebeck/personal_environment_tweaks"
            }
        ]
    },
    "id": 0
}

Thanks !

[lwandrebeck]

Ha, nevermind. Got it running by putting ansible-language-server after yaml-language-server.
language-servers = [ "yaml-language-server", "ansible-language-server" ]

I’ll update the documentation.

[lwandrebeck]

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-the-default-language-servers updated.