I was trying to implement my custom completion item provider for monaco-editor and I was expecting that completionItemProvider will be invoked for every keystroke. Instead, it is getting triggered after every 2nd character.
function createDependencyProposals(range) {
// returning a static list of proposals, not even looking at the prefix (filtering is done by the Monaco editor),
// here you could do a server side lookup
return [
{
label: '"lodash"',
kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Function,
documentation: "The Lodash library exported as Node.js modules.",
insertText: '"lodash": "*"',
range: range
},
{
label: '"express"',
kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Function,
documentation: "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework",
insertText: '"express": "*"',
range: range
},
{
label: '"mkdirp"',
kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Function,
documentation: "Recursively mkdir, like <code>mkdir -p</code>",
insertText: '"mkdirp": "*"',
range: range
},
{
label: '"my-third-party-library"',
kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Function,
documentation: "Describe your library here",
insertText: '"${1:my-third-party-library}": "${2:1.2.3}"',
insertTextRules: monaco.languages.CompletionItemInsertTextRule.InsertAsSnippet,
range: range
}
];
}
monaco.languages.registerCompletionItemProvider('json', {
provideCompletionItems: function(model, position) {
// find out if we are completing a property in the 'dependencies' object.
var textUntilPosition = model.getValueInRange({startLineNumber: 1, startColumn: 1, endLineNumber: position.lineNumber, endColumn: position.column});
console.log(textUntilPosition);
var match = textUntilPosition.match(/"dependencies"\s*:\s*\{\s*("[^"]*"\s*:\s*"[^"]*"\s*,\s*)*([^"]*)?$/);
if (!match) {
return { suggestions: [] };
}
var word = model.getWordUntilPosition(position);
var range = {
startLineNumber: position.lineNumber,
endLineNumber: position.lineNumber,
startColumn: word.startColumn,
endColumn: word.endColumn
};
return {
suggestions: createDependencyProposals(range)
};
}
});
monaco.editor.create(document.getElementById("container"), {
value: "{\n\t\"dependencies\": {\n\t\t\n\t}\n}\n",
language: "json"
});
I checked this code in monaco playground and when I typed some gibberish very fast. The console log showed me this
Is there any configuration with which I can make completionItemProvider trigger on every keystroke? Or any explanation regarding this behaviour will help.
Thanks in advance!