Not able to install go lang plugin on intellij 2017.2 community edition

[shruti1701]

IDE name and version: IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 Build #IC-172.3317.76, built on July 15, 2017 JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-915-b5 amd64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o Linux 4.10.0-28-generic

After upgrading my intellij to 2017.2 i am getting the below error Unknown Module Type Cannot determine module type ("GO_MODULE") for the following module:"work" The module will be treated as a Unknown module.

So i uninstalled the go plugin and tried to re-install it but i am not able to find it from the repositories. Also i tried to download the plugin( 172.3317-EAP-CANDIDATE-SNAPSHOT.20 and172.3198.6.18) from this url https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9568-go. And tried with install plugin from disk options , but that does not work either

[dlsniper]

There are currently no plans to make this plugin compatible with 2017.2 as far as I know.

Also I don't have the time or resources to work on the open-source version so any contributors are welcomed.

The JetBrains maintained one is not going to compatible with the community version. You can use https://www.jetbrains.com/go/ if you want as a much better alternative than this plugin.

If you want to have this plugin working in IntelliJ community 2017.2, please send a PR. Thank you.

[josh-padnick]

I haven't yet explored how well it works, but here's how I at least go Golang functionality working again in in IntelliJ 2017.2:

1. Go to Preferences... > Plugins

2. Click on Browse repositories...

1. Type "Go" and select the official JetBrains Go plugin:

At first blush, it feels like an improvement over the previous community-maintained plugin.

[dlsniper]

Please note that the above plugin works for only in the Ultimate Edition, not in the Community one.

You can read more about the plugin here https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/ and you can find a part of the differences here https://www.jetbrains.com/help/go/faq.html#d3e55

[jerome-laforge]

Unfortunately, Goglang is not fully compatible with all plugins (e.g. gitflow plugin)

[dlsniper]

You need to install the Task Management plugin, restart the IDE then install the GitFlow plugin and it will work.

[dlsniper]

If you have any other plugins that don't work, please feel free to open an issue here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/Go

[jbernhardsch]

Any solution for this issue? Thanks

[dlsniper]

Yes, see my first comment on the issue https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin/issues/2897#issuecomment-316320489

[bmarguer]

Opened Issue #GO-4191 for Ant support. Thanks

[Disastorm]

I found a workaround. In intellij-go-0.171.1931.jar you change META-INF/plugin.xml file from:

  <idea-version since-build="171.1834" until-build="171.*"/>

to:

  <idea-version since-build="171.1834" until-build="172.*"/>

The plugin seems to be working after this.

I'm not sure what you need to change in this repo to do that.

[suztomo]

@Disastorm Thanks, it worked:

Downloaded Go-0.13.1947.zip from https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/5047-go-language-golang-org-support-plugin

mkdir /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
unzip ~/Downloads/Go-0.13.1947.zip
mkdir intellij-go-0.13.1947.until-build-172
cd intellij-go-0.13.1947.until-build-172/
unzip ../Go/lib/intellij-go-0.13.1947.jar
vim META-INF/plugin.xml # edit for the above
rm ../Go/lib/intellij-go-0.13.1947.jar
zip -r ../Go/lib/intellij-go-0.13.1947.jar .
adding: colorscheme/ (stored 0%)
adding: colorscheme/Darcula - dlsniper.xml (deflated 84%)
adding: com/ (stored 0%)
...
adding: META-INF/plugin.xml (deflated 64%)
cd ../
zip -r Go.zip Go
adding: Go/ (stored 0%)
adding: Go/.DS_Store (deflated 94%)
adding: Go/lib/ (stored 0%)
...
adding: Go/lib/intellij-go-0.13.1947.jar (deflated 11%)
adding: Go/lib/plan9-0.13.jar (deflated 12%)
adding: Go/lib/utils-0.13.jar (deflated 8%)

Then Go.zip worked well for me with "Install plugin from disk" of my IntelliJ 2017.2 Community Edition.

[GoForGopher]

@Disastorm Thank you! I searching for more than an hour.This worked perfectly.

[tiagopotencia]

For Intellij 2017.3, is just change to:

until-build="173.*"/>

[meetsubhojit]

@suztomo thanks for the commands

[notzippy]

I created a release that works without changes here - https://github.com/notzippy/go-lang-idea-plugin/releases I will try to keep this compatible with intellij

[andreyvolosyuk]

I've added all instructions given by @suztomo to a bash file. Run it as soon as phpstorm or another editor version was changed.

https://gist.github.com/andreyvolosyuk/fe87c3bfe2e1d8d5fb30719072c91e1f

[QuentinFra]

Any way to make this plugin work in IntelliJ community edition 2019.2?

[akshaygoyal]

@QuentinFra Try this:

<idea-version since-build="171.1834" until-build="192.*"/>

[rushi47]

If anybody is looking for answer with 2020 version its

But it seems its way different from Ultimate edition plugin as it have lot of Feature, for example it can show whole struct just by hovering to it. Switching to VS Code -_-