Repo level IntelliJ Platform settings via .ijwb/.idea

[bric3]

Description of the feature request:

Cannot commit .idea settings files within .ijwb/.idea, because the .ijwb "already exists".

Which category does this issue belong to?

No response

What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

The IDEA project folder is generated in .ijwb/.idea of the repository root. In regular non-bazel project, it is possible to commit some files of the .idea folder to help configure IDEA.
E.g.

• Silly things like the .idea/icon.svg
• Run configurations .idea/runConfigurations/*.xml
• (Search) Scopes .idea/scopes/
• External dependencies (like plugins) .idea/externalDependencies.xml

I was hoping that it possible to commit such files .ijwb/.idea/..., but it doesn't work because the .ijwb folder has to be re-created on each import. Otherwise we see the following error.

Related issues:

• Unable to save settings if .ijwb already exists #434
• Cannot save settings if ijwb directory already exists #6454
• Support for configuring minimum required plugin version #1128

What operating system, Intellij IDE and programming languages are you using? Please provide specific versions.

• macOs 15
• GoLand & Intellij IDEA 2024.2.2
• Bazel for Intellij 2024.08.27.0.1-api-version-242

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

Nope

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

No response

[tpasternak]

Duplicate of #3326

[tpasternak]

Hey @bric3 . I don't have capacity to work on it, but could experiment with checking some files in .ijwb/.idea and then using "File -> open -> .jiwb directory" instead of "import bazel project"

[bric3]

but could experiment with checking some files in .ijwb/.idea and then using "File -> open -> .jiwb directory" instead of "import bazel project"

Actually, this doesn't work well, in the sense that the monorepo I'm working on has multiple "views" consisting each of a .bazelproject, there's about 100 in this repo. That's why the devx team suggest to import the project.

That says thank you for the suggestion and the feedback!

[tpasternak]

So just in case you missed that - it is possible to setup run configurations xmls via the project files https://github.com/bazelbuild/intellij/blob/master/examples/java/greetings_project/run_configurations/fragment.bazelproject

Maybe we could think of extending that

[tpasternak]

Oh, and theoretically, you could

1. keep an empty projectview in .ijwb
2. open int
3. put import right_project_view there

[tpasternak]

Oh, and you can also start using the new plugin https://github.com/JetBrains/hirschgarten

[bric3]

Yeah I'd like to test the new JetBrains plugin, but it's not yet "validated" by our "devx" team. I don't know stable it is at this stage.

I'll test the fragments approach, thanks for that.

EDIT: I misread I thought fragments could support any xml file. It only support run configuration and indeed that would be useful to extend that mechanism.