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ProtocolClient.send breaks async stacktraces

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api

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Start in testSupport/src/protocolClient.ts at the linked ProtocolClient.send implementation and inspect how it calls doSend. Trace the rejected promise path and verify that send awaits a wrapper around the raw response before translating the error. Done means async rejection stack traces include send and its caller.

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bug

The following implementation:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-debugadapter-node/blob/1621133e71527d9d46438edb766eaf8e731b68f5/testSupport/src/protocolClient.ts#L69-L80
is not async itself and returns the promise immediately without awaiting it. Consequently, if the promise gets rejected with an error, the stack trace in the error does not include either send or its caller. This unnecessarily complicates debugging of e.g. async unit tests that await send() and receive an unexpected error response.

Instead, the callback for doSend should capture the raw response in a wrapper promise, and then send should await that promise and translate it to a throw.

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