Deduplicate files

[jyn514]

Deduplicate files

[brendanzab]

I think the original intention was for users to keep track of the FileId themselves, and use that to refer to and update files, but I understand that might be a bit confusing for people. Yet another reason why I think that maintaining our own file database is a bad idea… I think we should support single file reporting easily out of the box, and have an example of how to extend this to work with multiple files, but that's it. That way people can customise things to their use case 🤔

[jyn514]

Well, I could be including the same file more than once, if this wasn't part of codespan I'd have to implement it myself. e.g.

main.c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>

stdio.h: #include <limits.h>

[icsaszar]

Now that the Files trait exists as of #164 users should be implement their own solutions and decide if they need deduplication or not, but I agree that supporting single file use cases would be very nice (especially for codespan-lsp since there a simple Vec for a file database wouldn't really cut it).

A bit unrelated, but I think it would be better if it was in the codespan crate, so if I only use codespan and codespan-lsp I don't need codespan-reporting. I'm working on a language server with tree-sitter and I need a way to convert points to byte positions for Tree::edit().

[brendanzab]

I'm going to say that this should be handled in a custom implementation of codespan_reporting::Files. I've tried to make implementing these relatively painless, but if you think I can do better, let me know!

For users of codespan, you can use the Files::update function to update files in-place. You will have to keep a hold of the FileId though - the file name is used purely for display purposes.