Description
See: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/master/protocol.md#workspace_symbol
The response is defined as being a simple SymbolInformation[]. It would be useful to enhance the protocol to allow a server to return only a subset of symbols for very broad queries and somehow indicate to the client that the returned list is incomplete (so, for example, the client should not rely on the list to filter down as a user types more in their search box).
This would be useful in cases where the 'query' is a short string (possibly even the empty string) which would otherwise result in a huge 'complete' list which could be very lengthy to compute and consume a lot of memory and bandwidth to transmit as well.
I.e. I would like something similar as is being done for completion item list (https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/master/protocol.md#completion-request) which allows for a boolean 'isIncomplete' flag.
Of course, even without this flag, it is always possible for a server to cut short the list of results. But without a way to convey the result's incompleteness to the client, the client has no way to know whether it is safe to use the posibly incomplete list and filter it down further or make a new request when the user types more characters in the search box.