Seamless gauge installation via IDE

[sriv]

Expected behavior

When a Gauge project is opened in Intellij, in a machine that does not have Gauge executable installed, download and install latest Gauge executable, after asking for the user's consent.

Actual behavior

When Gauge isn't installed, user is presented with a message indicating such.

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Dev Notes

• Best way to achieve this is to download the latest installer, and invoke it in silent mode.

• Since this is invoked via Intellij, it is safe to assume that gauge-java plugin also needs to be installed.

[zabil]

Prompt the user before creating a new project for an option of what gauge executable to use.

Download and install gauge per project

This will download the gauge binary in the project .gauge project and create a gaugew wrapper script that can be used to manage gauge versions. The gaugew wrapper can be checked in to make this configuration portable.

Use local Gauge distribution

The user can refer to an already installed version of gauge.

The configuration can be modified later via the project preferences page.

[mahendrakariya]

This is an awesome idea. But at the same time, I think we should cross check the JetBrains guidelines around installing something outside the IntelliJ ecosystem. In case of violation, the plugin maybe black listed and removed.

[zabil]

Sure will check. This will work similar to how gradlew works on intellij. Although again the gradle plugin is officially supported by intellij.

[zabil]

This will be implemented in VS code.