[ES6] Auto imports with completion

[angelozerr]

It should really fantastic if tsserver completion command could support auto import with completion like WebStorm provides:

See http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2016/04/angular-2-workflow-in-webstorm/#ng2-imports for more information.

[angelozerr]

@DanielRosenwasser @mhegazy is there any chance that tsserver could provide this feature? If yes in which RoadMap? Thanks!

[RyanCavanaugh]

This would be really complex and is unlikely to be a priority relative to other work for quite a while

[angelozerr]

Thank's @RyanCavanaughfor your answer. I understand that it's not your priority but a lot of users from VSCode, typescript.java complains about this missing features compared to Jetbrains.

I know that there are VSCode extension to do that, but it's not clean because there are double TypeScript parsing (one by tsserver and one by the extension). It should be very cool if tsserver provides this feature.

[mhegazy]

#11768 would handle part of that, though not through completion but through quick fixes.

[angelozerr]

Thanks @mhegazy for your answer. #11768 is a great feature. I'm implementing quickfix support inside Eclipse. I'm very enthousiasm to test it once my implementation will be finished.

Do you think you could use #11768 logic to support auto import with completion?

[mhegazy]

Do you think you could use #11768 logic to support auto import with completion?

What i meant is the user would get some of the functionality with the quick fix. possibly we can leverage some of the logic later on to support the feature in the OP.

the main issue is that we need to have our completion include some sort of edit ranges, so that accepting the completion would generate multiple changes in the file. which is not that hard to do to be frank, bit it is work.

[angelozerr]

Thanks again @mhegazy to have taking time to answer me.

What i meant is the user would get some of the functionality with the quick fix.

Yes it's already a great improvement.

possibly we can leverage some of the logic later on to support the feature in the OP.

It was the answer that I wished:) Hope one day auto import will be implemented.

the main issue is that we need to have our completion include some sort of edit ranges, so that accepting the completion would generate multiple changes in the file. which is not that hard to do to be frank, bit it is work.

Ok I understand. I though the hard task was about the scan files (to have the best performance), because in this case you must scan about the whole ts files in the project and not only declared files as module (with import, require).

[waderyan]

Feedback from VS Code users - microsoft/vscode#818