zed-metals

A Scala extension for Zed (powered by Metals)

Pre-requisites

• Coursier
• Install Metals: cs install metals

Note: You need to have the path to metals exported at shell init (e.g. by an entry in ~/.bashrc), as zed does not currently seem to pick up exported environment variables when started from a terminal. So it's not enough to export PATH="$PATH:~/.local/share/coursier/bin" in a shell and run zed from there. It will fail to start Metals in that case (and will not say so in the LSP log; but nothing but syntax highlighting will work then).

Configuration

You can set Metals user configuration settings in your zed settings.json in lsp.metals.settings. For example, to enable displaying type annotations for inferred types as inlay hints:

{
  "lsp": {
    "metals": {
      "settings": {
        "inlayHints": {
          "inferredTypes": {
            "enable": true
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can also set Metals initialization options and Metals server properties in your zed settings.json in lsp.metals.binary.arguments and lsp.metals.initialization_options, respectively.

For example, to enable HTTP server (running on http://localhost:5031 by default) for executing client commands, which currently are not supported by zed directly, you can use:

{
  "lsp": {
    "metals": {
      "binary": {
        "arguments": [
          "-Dmetals.http=on"
        ]
      },
      "initialization_options": {
        "isHttpEnabled": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Running ScalaTest tests

The extension supports detecting tests by checking if the test class inherits one of the following ScalaTest traits:

• AnyWordSpec / WordSpec
• AnyFunSpec / FunSpec
• AnyFunSuite / FunSuite
• AnyFlatSpec / FlatSpec
• AnyFeatureSpec / FeatureSpec
• AnyPropSpec / PropSpec
• AnyFreeSpec / FreeSpec

In order to get the run icon in the gutter, you need to provide zed with a task that run the test class.

The task must have the tag scala-test in order to be detected by the editor.

Following is an example task that you can add to your editor, to know more about tasks refer to Zed Documentation.

[
  {
    "label": "run tests with bloop",
    "name": "run-bloop-test",
    "command": "./run-bloop-tests.sh ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT} ${ZED_SYMBOL}",
    "working_directory": "${workspace_root}",
    "environment": {
      "PATH": "${env.PATH}"
    },
    "keystroke": "ctrl-shift-r",
    "tags": ["scala-test"]
  }
]

The corresponding minimal run-bloop-test.sh which must be placed in your project root. If you want to place it anywhere else you'll have to adjust the task accordingly.

#!/bin/bash

project_name=$(basename $1) # Extract the project name from the $ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT
filename=$2

bloop test $project_name -o "*$filename*"

Running a main class

In order to get the run icon in the gutter, you need to provide zed with a task that run the main class.

The task must have the tag scala-main in order to be detected by the editor.

Following is an example task that you can add to your editor, to know more about tasks refer to Zed Documentation.

[
  {
    "label": "run main with bloop",
    "name": "run-main",
    "command": "./run-bloop-main.sh ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT} ${ZED_FILE} ${ZED_SYMBOL}",
    "working_directory": "${workspace_root}",
    "environment": {
      "PATH": "${env.PATH}"
    },
    "tags": ["scala-main"]
  }
]

The corresponding minimal run-bloop-main.sh which must be placed in your project root. If you want to place it anywhere else you'll have to adjust the task accordingly.

#!/bin/bash

project_name=$(basename $1) # Extract the project name from the $ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT
filepath=$2
mainname=$3

package_name=$(cat $filepath | grep -E '^package ' | sed 's/package //') # Extract the package name from the main file

bloop run $project_name -m "$package_name.$mainname"

Releasing the extension

To release the extension, you need to bump the version in Cargo.toml and extension.toml in the root of the repository and create a tag for the version (example bump: e8b826cb3fc0f5f054aa0012e17824f8904a73f5.

After that, you need to open up a PR on zed-industries/extensions (example: zed-industries/extensions#29, the PR must :

• Update the submodule on extensions/scala to the appropriate commit
• Update the file extensions.toml to set the appropriate version for the extension in the [scala] section