Slither Language Server

How to install

Run the following command from the project root directory (preferably inside a Python virtual environment):

python -m pip install .

Features

• Go to implementations/definitions
• Find all references
• Show call hierarchy
• Show type hierarchy
• View and filter detector results

Adding new features

New request handlers should be registered in the constructor of SlitherServer. Please note that in order to keep the conceptual load to a minimum, handlers should not be declared directly in the SlitherServer class itself. Instead, related handlers should be declared in a separate module. See goto_def_impl_refs.py as an example.

The Slither Language Server uses pygls as the LSP implementation, and you should refer to its documentation when writing new handlers.

If you're adding an handler for a standard LSP feature, there will be no need to do anything on the VSCode extension side: VSCode will automatically hook its commands to use the provided feature.

If, on the other hand, the feature you're trying to add does not map to a standard LSP feature, you will need to register a custom handler. See $/slither/analyze as an example: note how each request name is prefixed with $/slither/. You will need to manually send request from the VSCode extension in order to trigger these handlers.