Is it possible dispatch and handle an async action between client and theia

[wss29]

Hi,
I'm trying to dispatch an action from my GLSP client to the Theia integration. However, I noticed that IActionHandlerdoes not support asynchronous operations, making it challenging to work with async functions inside it. Is there a way to handle actions asynchronously in the Theia integration?

[martin-fleck-at]

@wss29 Hi, could you elaborate a bit on the use case that you are trying to solve? If it is mostly for the Theia integration, maybe you could look into using a Theia command instead.

In general, actions are handled by the action dispatchers once they are dispatched to ensure a proper sequence of actions. From a quick glance, I don't think there is a reason to prohibit async action handlers as we need to chain the promises together anyways. I opened issue #1609 to track this.