# Language Server Protocol for Salt States
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# What is LSP?
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# Demo
- state name completion
- documentation of completion
- jump to state ids
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# Challenges
- Parsing potentially invalid YAML
- Interpreting YAML + Jinja to provide better completion
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# Future
- Finish the AST construction
- More features:
- show documentation
- salt-lint integration
- autocomplete in more places
- ...
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# Links
- [salt-lsp source code](https://github.com/dcermak/salt-lsp)
- [LSP specifications](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/)
- [LSP image](https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/quick-start-to-vscode-plug-ins-language-server-protocol-lsp-a1faf5a355f4)
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