Allow configuring additional Lua globals for lua_ls

[gamedevshrimp]

Hi! I noticed that defold.nvim configures lua_ls with its own diagnostics.globals:

diagnostics = {
    globals = {
        "final",
        "fixed_update",
        "init",
        "on_input",
        "on_message",
        "on_reload",
        "update",
    },
},

This works well for Defold-specific globals, but it means that user-defined globals configured elsewhere are not available when editing Lua files inside a Defold project.

For example, I have the following in my regular lua_ls configuration:

diagnostics = {
    globals = {
        "vim",
        "spine",
        "firebase",
    },
},

This works correctly in regular Lua files, but once defold.nvim attaches its lua_ls configuration, these globals are no longer recognized and I get warnings such as:

Undefined global firebase

Suggested solution

Would it be possible to make the Defold LSP globals configurable, or provide a way to extend the default list?

For example, something along these lines:

opts = {
    lsp = {
        diagnostics = {
            globals = {
                "vim",
                "spine",
                "firebase",
            },
        },
    },
}

The plugin could then merge the user-provided globals with the built-in Defold globals rather than replacing them.

For example:

globals = vim.list_extend({
    "final",
    "fixed_update",
    "init",
    "on_input",
    "on_message",
    "on_reload",
    "update",
}, user_globals or {})

This would preserve the built-in Defold globals while allowing projects/users to define additional globals.

Thanks!

[atomicptr]

I don't think this is necessary because the only way you can extend/add new globals to Defold is via extensions which we should already support. Upon testing this however I realized that:

• https://github.com/defold/extension-spine

This seems to throw an error which i need to fix:

2026-09-20T08:03:27.137375Z ERROR install_dependencies: defold_nvim_core::project: crates/core/src/project.rs:83: Could not download dependency https://github.com/defold/extension-spine/archive/refs/tags/4.7.8.zip because: .[0].members[2].return: invalid type: sequence, expected struct Value at line 153 column 7

• https://github.com/defold/extension-firebase

it does correctly generate the .lua file but doesn't register it as a global, either something has changed or I fucked something up...

It does still work with correctly with https://github.com/selimanac/defold-astar though...

I will investigate this, thanks for the report

[atomicptr]

TIL, Defold seems to now parse the annoations themselves, which means we can delete a lot of code

This does work well with whats in here:

Fun part this doesn't seem to work with firebase right now for some reason, might be a Defold issue 🤔

[atomicptr]

Should be resolved with v0.8.2

There were some issues that prevented the spine extension annotations from properly building which should be resolved now, also firebase now properly appears for me too:

[gamedevshrimp]

Thank you! 🙌