Setup

[chrisrhayes]

• [x] Clone existing repo.
• [x] Check it out.
• [x] Build and run the existing plugin
• [x] Plugin SDK is installed but needs building
• [x] Get full build running via Gradle
• [x] Get plugin build and execute working in IDE sandbox

[ronhitchens]

Our repo was forked from the ligasgr plugin at commit bd1777c, which is broken, at least for the run configuration stuff. If I checkout the from the latest release (3.2.0) then it works ok. I'm going to branch off from that point to begin work until I can fix the problems or until upstream fixes are made.

[ronhitchens]

The ligasgr plugin has a proper Gradle build setup which runs automated tests. That's good for CI and release packaging, but it's very tedious to develop a plugin by waiting for a Gradle build and then loading the plugin manually. IntelliJ has a plugin development mode for quickly testing plugins, but the project must be created as a plugin dev project, which is incompatible with importing the Gradle config (I think, there may be a way). For now, I'm using a native IntelliJ Plugin Project and leaving the Gradle config for command line usage. It did require a fair bit of dependency setup, but works OK now.

[ronhitchens]

Considering this done. It's in sufficient shape now to get underway with development. Some work still needs to be done for CI but there is a separate ticket for that already. Moving this one on.

[ligasgr]

Please have a look on http://ligasgr.github.io/intellij-xquery/collaboration.html This page has a step where you generate the idea project with modules which allows you to skip manual creation etc. And the created project is a valid Idea Plugin Development project.

[ronhitchens]

Thanks Grzegorz. I had done all everything as per your docs but somehow I wound up setting the Project SDK back to the standard Java 8 SDK. It's all working smoothly now. It's been several years since I worked on an IntelliJ plugin, otherwise I would have noticed my mistake.

Thanks again.