cobigen intellij installation

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • IntelliJ setup
    • Plugin installation
    • IntelliJ Testing and Debugging

Installation

IntelliJ setup

If you want to use IntelliJ for CobiGen project, you can follow the steps below:

1. You can easily install IntelliJ, create a launch script for it etc. as described in

   https://github.com/devonfw/ide/blob/master/documentation/intellij.asciidoc

2. After starting IntelliJ, you need to import the cobigen folder as maven project

3. Next you have to configure the maven settings in IntelliJ as follows:

   1. Go to File→ Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Build Tools → Maven

      1. Choose (Maven home Path) from your devonFolder → devonProjects/software/maven

      2. Override (user settings file) → devonProjects/conf/.m2/settings.xml

      3. Override (Local repository) → devonProjects/conf/.m2/repository

      

   2. Now go to File → Project Structure → Project Settings → Project add java sdk version from → devonProjects/software/java.

      Make sure you are using Java 11. If you have set up your devonfw-ide with this settings URL https://github.com/devonfw/cobigen-ide-settings.git, the correct version will be set automatically. If not, you can download Java 11 manually and place it into devonProjects/software/java11.

      

   3. Go to the Maven tool window by clicking on View → Tool Windows → Maven and toggle the "Skip Tests" mode.

After you have finished your configuration, run maven clean and maven install within IntelliJ. CobiGen should build without any errors.

Plugin installation

You can easily install plugins in IntelliJ as described in

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/managing-plugins.html

Adapter for Eclipse Code Formatter

If you want to contribute to CobiGen, you must have this plugin installed so that the developer team can use the same coding style. This plugin solves the problem of maintaining a common code style in team environments where both IDEA and Eclipse are used. Although it should be enabled and the config file location can be found in devon/workspaces/main as shown below

IntelliJ Testing and Debugging

1. Disable ArgLine:

   If there are any tests that do not work, you might want to disable argline. Go to File → Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Build Tools → Maven → Running Tests then uncheck ArgLine

   

2. Delegate IDE build and run actions to Maven:

   Go to File → Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Build Tools → Maven → Runner and check Delegate IDE build/run actions to Maven.

   

3. CLI DEBUGGING:

   If you want to debug an application in IntelliJ, for example, the CLI project, you can go to Run → Edit Configurations. Simply add a new configuration and configure the CLI as shown in the picture.

   

For more information please visit

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/run-debug-configuration.html#share-configurations