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x/tools/gopls: file watchers should be reevaluated after load #60340

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findleyr opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 2 comments
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x/tools/gopls: file watchers should be reevaluated after load #60340

findleyr opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 2 comments
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gopls/metadata Issues related to metadata loading in gopls gopls Issues related to the Go language server, gopls. Tools This label describes issues relating to any tools in the x/tools repository.
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Normally I would just fix this bug, but given our proximity to the v0.12.0 release I'm filing it for later:

When state changes in gopls, we re-evaluate file watchers. Currently, this is done synchronously to the state change processing, via Server.didModifyFiles->updateWatchedDirectories.

Problems with this:

  • AFAIK there is no need to block change processing on updating watched directories. File watching is always going to be asynchronous, so I don't think we avoid any races by blocking while processing didChange notifications
  • we should generally avoid blocking on server->client calls during notification processing, as it can lead to distributed deadlocks in certain clients
  • we should awaitLoaded before re-evaluating file watches, as go list might surface new directories to watch after e.g. a go.mod change. We can't awaitLoaded during change processing.
@findleyr findleyr added this to the gopls/v0.13.0 milestone May 22, 2023
@gopherbot gopherbot added Tools This label describes issues relating to any tools in the x/tools repository. gopls Issues related to the Go language server, gopls. labels May 22, 2023
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Change https://go.dev/cl/496879 mentions this issue: gopls/internal/lsp/regtest: delete TestWatchReplaceTargets

gopherbot pushed a commit to golang/tools that referenced this issue May 22, 2023
We don't actually watch replace targets anymore. The way to specify if a
module is being used is by including it in a go.work file.

Looking back on the flakiness, I am pretty sure it was due simply to
type-checking on slow builders, back when we limited each regtest to
20s. This module imports some standard library packages that used to be
slow to type check. I am pretty sure this test would no longer be flaky,
if we still supported the functionality.

While porting over the assertions from this test to TestUseGoWork, I
discovered golang/go#60340, a bug in the order of our file watcher
evaluation.

Fixes golang/go#50748

Change-Id: I26c10ac659d0f195da18b6181b54d7c373cc984b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/496879
Run-TryBot: Robert Findley <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <[email protected]>
@adonovan adonovan added the gopls/metadata Issues related to metadata loading in gopls label Aug 31, 2023
@findleyr findleyr modified the milestones: gopls/v0.14.0, gopls/v0.15.0 Oct 9, 2023
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findleyr commented Feb 4, 2024

This can wait until gopls/v0.16.0, since we've been living with it for a while. But I do think this is a source of potential inconsistency.

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