bug: document_symbol only respecting spring-boot client

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Neovim version (nvim -v)

0.11.5

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Win11/WSL Ubuntu 24.04

Describe the bug

Using current version of this plugin, it looks like document_symbol (via telescope, fzflua or just :lua vim.lsp.buf.document_symbol()) just returns values for the spring-boot client. For a minimal setup I've used the devcontainer init.lua available in this repo.

All symbols returned are just spring-boot annotations

Lazy (should be nvim-java 4.0.1?)

● nvim-java 21.46ms  start
dir /home/soenke/.local/share/nvim/lazy/nvim-java
url https://github.com/nvim-java/nvim-java
branch main
commit 389ef7c
readme README.md
help |nvim-java.txt|

jdk 21
jdtls 1.54.0

When setting lsp loglevel to debug, this is the whole output i'm getting:

[DEBUG][2025-12-08 23:25:36] ...m/lsp/client.lua:674    "LSP[spring-boot]"      "client.request"        1       "textDocument/documentSymbol"   { textDocument = { uri = "<>.java" } } <function 1>    1
[DEBUG][2025-12-08 23:25:36] .../vim/lsp/rpc.lua:277    "rpc.send"      { id = 15, jsonrpc = "2.0", method = "textDocument/documentSymbol", params = { textDocument = { uri = "<>.java" } } }
[DEBUG][2025-12-08 23:25:36] .../vim/lsp/rpc.lua:391    "rpc.receive"   { id = 15, jsonrpc = "2.0", result = { { kind = 11, location = { range = { ["end"] = { character = 15, line = 21 }, start = { character = 0, line = 21 } }, uri = "<>.java" }, name = "@+ '<>' (@RestController <: @Controller, @Component) <>Controller" }, { kind = 11, location = { range = { ["end"] = { character = 98, line = 37 }, start = { character = 1, line = 36 } }, uri = "<>.java" }, name = "@/** -- POST - Accept: application/<> - Content-Type: application/<>" }, { kind = 11, location = { range = { ["end"] = { character = 42, line = 38 }, start = { character = 30, line = 38 } }, uri = "<>.java" }, name = "@RequestBody" }, { kind = 11, location = { range = { ["end"] = { character = 87, line = 59 }, start = { character = 1, line = 59 } }, uri = "<>.java" }, name = "@/**/{request:.+} -- GET - Content-Type: application/<>" }, { kind = 11, location = { range = { ["end"] = { character = 53, line = 60 }, start = { character = 29, line = 60 } }, uri = "<>r.java" }, name = '@PathVariable("request")' } } }

Steps To Reproduce

use devcontainer config, or add nvim-java as plugin to kickstart nvim
open spring boot object (e.g. petclinic)
open a controller
run :lua vim.lsp.buf.document_symbol() (or telescope/fzflua equivalent)

Expected Behavior

I'd expect seeing symbols returned by jdtls as well, instead of only spring boot annotations.
I looked for similar issues, and one of them suggested adding more documentSymbol types to jdtls. however, when using jdtls on it's own it returned the expected symbols just fine

I am not that familiar with nvim plugins, but if anyone has an idea where the problem lies or what needs to be done, I'd gladly try to work on a PR myself

This is something we had in the older version too. I'm not sure if it ever worked but I think it did at some point and somewhere along the way it changed. Is this something we're not instructing jdtls to do?

This did not work. I assume it's not supported by jdtls. But you can use these APIs.
https://github.com/nvim-java/nvim-java/wiki/Tips-&-Tricks#-workspace-symbols-search

It is supported by jdtls, just the .devcontainer config to contain nvim-jdtls, having jdtls 1.54.0 on path an running :lua vim.lsp.buf.document_symbol() returns the following:

init.lua excerpt:

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath('data') .. '/lazy/lazy.nvim'

if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
	vim.fn.system({
		'git',
		'clone',
		'--filter=blob:none',
		'https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git',
		'--branch=stable',
		lazypath,
	})
end

vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)

-- Setup lazy.nvim
require('lazy').setup({
	-- {
	-- 	'nvim-java/nvim-java',
	-- 	dir = '/workspaces/nvim-java',
	-- 	config = function()
	-- 		require('java').setup({
	-- 			jdk = {
	-- 				auto_install = false,
	-- 			},
	-- 			log = {
	-- 				use_console = false,
	-- 				level = 'debug',
	-- 			},
	-- 		})
	-- 		vim.lsp.config('jdtls', {
	-- 			handlers = {
	-- 				['language/status'] = function(_, data)
	-- 					vim.notify(data.message, vim.log.levels.INFO)
	-- 				end,

	-- 				['$/progress'] = function(_, data)
	-- 					vim.notify(data.value.message, vim.log.levels.INFO)
	-- 				end,
	-- 			},
	-- 		})
	-- 		vim.lsp.enable('jdtls')
	-- 	end,
	-- },
    {
        'mfussenegger/nvim-jdtls',

    }
})

vim.lsp.config("jdtls", {
  settings = {
    java = {
        -- Custom eclipse.jdt.ls options go here
    },
  },
})
vim.lsp.enable("jdtls")

I'd like to keep using nvim-java, the integration with everything I need is awesome - thats the single thing I use often thats missing

I'll have a look

I can confirm it works on nvim-jdtls. Also adding the documentSymbol didn't fix it.

Can you create a new spring project spring init -d web --extract proj/demo and then send me the document symbols you find with nvim-jdtls

When I set this flag to false, document symbols are working but seems like spring-boot symbols are stops working. I don't see such flag in nvim-jdtls either.

https://github.com/nvim-java/nvim-java/blob/389ef7c938f89730f112054132d6a08c180733af/lua/java-core/ls/servers/jdtls/conf.lua?plain=1#L11C4-L11C32

Can you create a new spring project spring init -d web --extract proj/demo and then send me the document symbols you find with nvim-jdtls

Document symbols:
src/main/java/com/example/proj/demo/DemoApplication.java|6 col 1-23| [Interface] @+ 'demoApplication' (@SpringBootApplication <: @SpringBootConfiguration, @Configuration, @Component) DemoApplication

Workspace symbols with query demo:
src/test/java/com/example/proj/demo/DemoApplicationTests.java|7 col 7-27| [Class] DemoApplicationTests src/main/java/com/example/proj/demo/DemoApplication.java|7 col 14-29| [Class] DemoApplication

Edit: i'll try it out with your fix
Edit2: tyvm!

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