Youcompleteme: Diagnostic display and autocomplete for javascript are abnormal

[yangxyo]

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• What did you do?

function! BuildYCM(info)
  " - name: YouCompleteMe
  " - status: 'installed'
  if a:info.status == 'installed' || a:info.force
    !python3 ./install.py --clangd-completer --go-completer --ts-completer
    !python3 .ycm_extra_conf.py ~/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd
  endif
endfunction

Plug 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': function('BuildYCM'), 'for': ['go', 'javascript']}

// jsconfig.json
{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "checkJs": true
    }
}



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cd YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd
git checkout master
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
./build.py --skip-build --no-regex --ts-completer



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VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Mar  4 2020 22:41:50)
macOS version



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Printing YouCompleteMe debug information...
-- Client logfile: /var/folders/9n/5k9ghmws7kd6zswgsvlcdcsh0000gn/T/ycm_oewx6d0r.log
-- Server Python interpreter: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7
-- Server Python version: 3.7.7
-- Server has Clang support compiled in: False
-- Clang version: None
-- Extra configuration file found and loaded
-- Extra configuration path: /Users/sweeney/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycm
d/.ycm_extra_conf.py
-- TypeScript completer debug information:
--   TSServer running
--   TSServer process ID: 91992
--   TSServer executable: /Users/sweeney/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/t
hird_party/tsserver/bin/tsserver
--   TSServer logfiles:
--     /var/folders/9n/5k9ghmws7kd6zswgsvlcdcsh0000gn/T/tsserver_4yg2v56h.log
--   TSServer version: 3.7.2
-- Server running at: http://127.0.0.1:53613
-- Server process ID: 91983
-- Server logfiles:
--   /var/folders/9n/5k9ghmws7kd6zswgsvlcdcsh0000gn/T/ycmd_53613_stdout_cslslm51.log
--   /var/folders/9n/5k9ghmws7kd6zswgsvlcdcsh0000gn/T/ycmd_53613_stderr_zavq4o61.log



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 1 test.js|2 col 8 error| Property 'name' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt ava  2 test.js|3 col 8 error| Property 'age' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt avai
  3 test.js|4 col 8 error| Property 'job' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt avai  4 test.js|6 col 8 error| Property 'sayName' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt
  5 test.js|7 col 20 error| Property 'name' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt av  6 test.js|11 col 8 error| Property 'sayName' does not exist on type 'Object'. (FixIt
  7 test.js|13 col 8 error| Identifier expected.

OS version, distribution, etc.

macos 10.15.3 (19D76)

[puremourning]

Please reproduce using the minimal vimrc and provide steps to reproduce.

If filing a bug report, I have included a minimal test case that reproduces
my issue, using vim -Nu /path/to/YCM/vimrc_ycm_minimal, including what I
expected to happen and what actually happened

You didn’t do this.

[puremourning]

FWIW I’m fairly certain that this is just how typescript works. Tern might work better for you, but afaict YCM is working correctly

[yangxyo]

I check, I don't have vimrc_ycm_minimal in /path/to/YouCompleteMe.

[puremourning]

Ok thanks. Can you update YCM first then?

It’s here https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe/blob/master/vimrc_ycm_minimal

[yangxyo]

I reinstall YCM yesterday.

[yangxyo]

... wait, I reinstall again.

[bstaletic]

The "problem" is that TSServer is expecting static interfaces - no dynamic properties allowed. So if you declare a Person interface and instantiate a new Person(), it will owrk.

[yangxyo]

OO..Thanks.

[bstaletic]

More specifically, this works.

class Person {
    age: number;
}
var person = new Person();

person.age = 29;

[yangxyo]

Thanks, you know a lot about this.

[puremourning]

as i said, if you want a more javascript-like setup with type inferences like this, try tern

TBH i'm surprised that tsserver isn't doing a better job of this. Does it work if you do:

var person = { 'name': "Joe", 'age': 100 };

[puremourning]

btw; check your vim-plug setup IIRC it has some dodgy cacheing thing which breaks YCM updates.

[bstaletic]

TBH i'm surprised that tsserver isn't doing a better job of this. Does it work if you do:

Yes, it works with object literals. I'd call this behaviour fine, since the entire point of typescript is having types.

[puremourning]

I would agree, except the file is quite clearly javascript, not typescript.

[bstaletic]

But the file's extension was .ts and therefore typescript.

[puremourning]

i see test.js in the screenshots?

[bstaletic]

Hmm... I can repro the above behaviour if I name the file test.ts. There's no spurious diagnostics and complaining if I name the file test.js.

EDIT: No I can't. It reports the same error even for javascript.

[yangxyo]

Does it work if you do

I'm sorry to reply to you for so long. It works.

[yangxyo]

It seems this error of diagnostic display is only for Object().
But autocompletion is not supported, either.

[puremourning]

This is nothing to do with YCM, this is entirely the expected behaviour of tsserver. See my link to Tern as an alternative.

[yangxyo]

Okk, THX.