From da30aaede9639e0d88717b094b02af4c904e4c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Aeschlimann Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:52:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme.md --- README.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- src/monaco.d.ts | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 66a16e0f..dac5ff7a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,45 @@ # Monaco JSON -JSON language plugin for the Monaco Editor. +JSON language plugin for the Monaco Editor. It provides the following features when editing JSON files: +* Code completion, based on JSON schemas or by looking at similar objects in the same file +* Hovers, based on JSON schemas +* Validation: Syntax errors and schema validation +* Formatting +* Document Symbols +* Syntax highlighting +Schemas can be provided by configuration. See ([here](https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-json/blob/master/src/monaco.d.ts) for the API that the +JSON plugin offers to configure the JSON language support. + +Internally the JSON plugin uses the [vscode-json-languageservice](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-json-languageservice) +node module, providing the implementation of the functionally listed above. The same module is also used +in [VSCode](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode) to power the JSON editing experience. ## Installing This npm module is bundled and distributed in the [monaco-editor](https://www.npmjs.com/package/monaco-editor) npm module. +## Dev: cheat sheet + +* initial setup with `npm install .` +* compile with `npm run watch` +* bundle with `npm run prepublish` + +## Dev: Running monaco-json from source + +* clone https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-json in `$/src/monaco-json` +* run `$/src/monaco-json> npm run watch` +* clone https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor in `$/src/monaco-editor` +* run `$/src/monaco-editor> npm run simpleserver` +* open http://localhost:8080/monaco-editor/test/?monaco-json=dev + +### [Optional] Running monaco-editor-core from source + +* this is only needed when you want to make changes also in `monaco-editor-core`. +* clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode in `$/src/vscode/` +* run `$/src/vscode> gulp watch` +* open http://localhost:8080/monaco-editor/test/?monaco-json=dev&editor=dev + + ## License [MIT](https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-json/blob/master/LICENSE.md) diff --git a/src/monaco.d.ts b/src/monaco.d.ts index 1d3b1c99..417f73bc 100644 --- a/src/monaco.d.ts +++ b/src/monaco.d.ts @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ declare module monaco.languages.json { export interface DiagnosticsOptions { /** - * If set, the validator will return syntax errors. + * If set, the validator will be enabled and perform syntax validation as well as schema based validation. */ validate?: boolean; /** - * If set, comments are toleranted. If not set, a syntax error is emmited for comments. + * If set, comments are tolerated. If set to false, syntax errors will be emmited for comments. */ allowComments?: boolean; /**