External global variables

[TracerDS]

Is there a way to assign a value of the global variables in the config file somehow?

Basically to change from this

To this

Without defining globals manually in every relevant file/in one module file that is then required.

[tomlau10]

Is there a way to assign a value of the global variables in the config file somehow?

I assume you are talking about the diagnostics.globals settings: https://luals.github.io/wiki/settings/#diagnosticsglobals
AFAIK, this is actually NOT the best practice because the server cannot infer type from it, it is only used to mute relevant undefined global warnings.

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What you actually want might be create a meta definition file and then define your globals with values there 🤔
https://luals.github.io/wiki/definition-files/

• global.d.lua

---@meta

MyGlobalVar = 123

This pattern is used by LuaLS's repo as well: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/blob/master/script/global.d.lua

[TracerDS]

Is there a way to assign a value of the global variables in the config file somehow?

I assume you are talking about the diagnostics.globals settings: https://luals.github.io/wiki/settings/#diagnosticsglobals AFAIK, this is actually NOT the best practice because the server cannot infer type from it, it is only used to mute relevant undefined global warnings.

What you actually want might be create a meta definition file and then define your globals with values there 🤔 https://luals.github.io/wiki/definition-files/

• global.d.lua

---@meta

MyGlobalVar = 123

This pattern is used by LuaLS's repo as well: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/blob/master/script/global.d.lua

thats a better solution, however changing how diagnostics.globals work in config files should yield more... effective results if I may say so.
But thats good enough. Thanks

[tomlau10]

however changing how diagnostics.globals work in config files should yield more

I'm not maintainer of LuaLS, just a user/contributor.
AFAIK, the diagnostics.globals feature is totally a different thing 🤔

• you can see the config namespace diagnostics.* => which means it only affects the diagnostics feature of LuaLS
• this is totally unrelated to how type inferencing works in the core part of LuaLS
• it's like a quick way to silence diagnostics warnings related to global variables 😕 (I believe)