Too many error messages on certain malformed code

[dv01sw]

Heyhey 👋

Sometimes when editing a file and introducing some syntax issue, lexical will throw up to three different error popups, and on each keypress they will animate again and also cannot be silenced. Neither by the DoNotDisturb mode, nor by clicking deactivate the notifications of this extension (because even if you deactivate the notifications of a certain extension in docker it will still show those marked as Error)
For concentrating on the code they are very distracting and don't add any value. I already know that the syntax is not correct, no need to yell at me that now also autocomplete will stop working :))

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[Blond11516]

Hi @dv01sw !

These errors aren't caused by your code having some error, they're caused by lexical failing entirely while handling an editor request; they're notifications from vscode itself, not from lexical. That might why you weren't able to disable them.

With that said, they're indeed very distracting but this volume of failed requests is absolutely not normal. Something must be going wrong between your lexical installation and your environment.

In your project you should find a .lexical directory with a lexical.log and project.log. If you could delete those files, restart lexical and upload those files after some errors have been triggered it should help us diagnose the issue.

Also, if you could provide some information regarding your development environment that would help a lot:

• OS
• Elixir and erlang versions of your project
• How you installed lexical (did you let the vscode extension install automatically or did you build it manually?)
• If using a manual build, what version/commit did you build, and with which versions of elixir and erlang

[dv01sw]

OS: Fedora 41
VSCode: I am using VScodium (the OSS variant). If i read the popups correctly it downloaded the lexical binary from somewhere online
Elixir: Elixir 1.17.3 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 27)

Stacktrace:

2025-02-19 15:48:16.057 [info] [Error - 3:48:16 PM] Request textDocument/codeLens failed.
2025-02-19 15:48:16.057 [info]   Message: ** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in LXical.Server.Provider.Handlers.CodeLens.handle/2
    (lx_server 0.7.2) lib/lexical/server/provider/handlers/code_lens.ex:16: LXical.Server.Provider.Handlers.CodeLens.handle(%{id: 724, __struct__: LXical.Protocol.Requests.CodeLens, document: #Inspect.Error<
  got UndefinedFunctionError with message:

      """
      function Code.Identifier.inspect_as_atom/1 is undefined or private
      """

  while inspecting:

      %{
        version: 11,
        path: "......controllers/page_controller.ex",
        uri: "file:///.......controllers/page_controller.ex",
        __struct__: LXical.Document,
        lines: %Lines<"defmodule .PageController do..."(7 lines)>,
        dirty?: true,
        language_id: "elixir"
      }

  Stacktrace:

    (elixir 1.17.3) Code.Identifier.inspect_as_atom(LXical.Document)
    (lx_lexical_shared 0.5.0) lib/lexical/document.ex:25: Inspect.LXical.Document.inspect/2
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/inspect/algebra.ex:347: Inspect.Algebra.to_doc/2
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/inspect.ex:287: Inspect.List.keyword/2
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/inspect/algebra.ex:478: Inspect.Algebra.container_each/6
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/inspect/algebra.ex:455: Inspect.Algebra.container_doc/6
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/inspect/algebra.ex:347: Inspect.Algebra.to_doc/2
    (elixir 1.17.3) lib/kernel.ex:2381: Kernel.inspect/2

[dv01sw]

Or is my Elixir just too new?

[Blond11516]

Or is my Elixir just too new?

1.17.3 should be fine. You can see the complete compatibility table here.

With that said I'm don't really know what's going on here. It looks like Elixir is failing to inspect a Lexical.Document struct but I don't know much about how inspecting works.

I'll transfer the issue over to the main lexical repo. The maintainers over there should be able to help better.