diff --git a/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs b/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
index 281e6c65dc..27ba42ce1a 100644
--- a/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
+++ b/crates/hir/src/semantics.rs
@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ impl<'db, DB: HirDatabase> Semantics<'db, DB> {
         self.imp.parse(file_id)
     }
 
+    pub fn parse_or_expand(&self, file_id: HirFileId) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
+        self.imp.parse_or_expand(file_id)
+    }
+
     pub fn expand(&self, macro_call: &ast::MacroCall) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
         self.imp.expand(macro_call)
     }
@@ -416,6 +420,12 @@ impl<'db> SemanticsImpl<'db> {
         tree
     }
 
+    fn parse_or_expand(&self, file_id: HirFileId) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
+        let node = self.db.parse_or_expand(file_id)?;
+        self.cache(node.clone(), file_id);
+        Some(node)
+    }
+
     fn expand(&self, macro_call: &ast::MacroCall) -> Option<SyntaxNode> {
         let sa = self.analyze(macro_call.syntax());
         let file_id = sa.expand(self.db, InFile::new(sa.file_id, macro_call))?;
diff --git a/crates/ide_db/src/items_locator.rs b/crates/ide_db/src/items_locator.rs
index 33bb14adde..788cfdc039 100644
--- a/crates/ide_db/src/items_locator.rs
+++ b/crates/ide_db/src/items_locator.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 //! are located in different caches, with different APIs.
 use either::Either;
 use hir::{
-    db::AstDatabase,
     import_map::{self, ImportKind},
     AsAssocItem, Crate, ItemInNs, Semantics,
 };
@@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ fn get_name_definition(
     let _p = profile::span("get_name_definition");
     let file_id = import_candidate.file_id;
 
-    let candidate_node = import_candidate.ptr.to_node(&sema.db.parse_or_expand(file_id)?);
+    let candidate_node = import_candidate.ptr.to_node(&sema.parse_or_expand(file_id)?);
     let candidate_name_node = if candidate_node.kind() != NAME {
         candidate_node.children().find(|it| it.kind() == NAME)?
     } else {