nazmulidris/gradle-intellij-plugin

Plugin for building plugins for IntelliJ IDEs

gradle-intellij-plugin

The latest version is 0.4.10

This project requires Gradle 3.4 or newer

This plugin allows you to build plugins for IntelliJ platform using specific IntelliJ SDK and bundled plugins.

The plugin adds extra IntelliJ-specific dependencies, patches processResources tasks to fill some tags (name, version) in plugin.xml with appropriate values, patches compile tasks to instrument code with nullability assertions and forms classes made with IntelliJ GUI Designer and provides some build steps which might be helpful while developing plugins for IntelliJ platform.

Getting started

Here is the manual on how to start developing plugins for IntelliJ IDEA using Gradle.

Usage

Gradle

plugins {
  id "org.jetbrains.intellij" version "0.4.10"
}

Snapshot version

Use the following code to get the latest features

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
      url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"
    }
    maven { 
      url 'https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-plugin-service' 
    }
    
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.jetbrains.intellij.plugins:gradle-intellij-plugin:0.5.0-SNAPSHOT"
  }
}

apply plugin: 'org.jetbrains.intellij'

Tasks

Plugin introduces the following tasks

Task	Description
buildPlugin	Assembles plugin and prepares zip archive for deployment.
patchPluginXml	Collects all plugin.xml files in sources and fill since/until build and version attributes.
prepareSandbox	Creates proper structure of plugin, copies patched plugin xml files and fills sandbox directory with all of it.
prepareTestingSandbox	Prepares sandbox that will be used while running tests.
buildSearchableOptions	Builds an index of UI components (a.k.a. searchable options) for the plugin by running a headless IDE instance. Note, that this is a runIde task with predefined arguments and all properties of runIde task are also applied to buildSearchableOptions tasks.
jarSearchableOptions	Creates a jar file with searchable options to be distributed with the plugin.
runIde	Executes an IntelliJ IDEA instance with the plugin you are developing.
publishPlugin	Uploads plugin distribution archive to https://plugins.jetbrains.com.
verifyPlugin	Validates completeness and contents of plugin.xml descriptors as well as plugin’s archive structure.

Configuration

Plugin provides the following options to configure target IntelliJ SDK and build archive

Setup DSL

The following attributes are a part of the Setup DSL intellij { ... } in which allows you to setup the environment and dependencies.

Attributes	Values
pluginName - The name of the target zip-archive and defines the name of plugin artifact.	Acceptable Values: String - 'gradle-intellij-plugin' Default Value: $project.name

IntelliJ Platform Properties

Attributes	Values
version - The version of the IntelliJ Platform IDE that will to build the plugin. Notes: Value may have IC-, IU-, CL-, PY-, PC-, RD or JPS- prefix in order to define IDE distribution type. intellij.version and intellij.localPath should not be specified at the same time.	Acceptable Values: version # '2017.2.5' or 'IC-2017.2.5' build # '172.4343' or 'IU-172.4343' 'LATEST-EAP-SNAPSHOT' All available JetBrains IDEs versions can be found at Intellij Artifacts page. Default Value: 'LATEST-EAP-SNAPSHOT'
type - The type of IDE distribution.	Acceptable Values: 'IC' - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. 'IU' - IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition. 'JPS' - JPS-only. 'CL' - CLion. 'PY' - PyCharm Professional Edition. 'PC' - PyCharm Community Edition. 'RD' - Rider. 'MPS' - MPS. Default Value: 'IC'
localPath - The path to locally installed IDE distribution that should be used as a dependency. Notes: intellij.version and intellij.localPath should not be specified at the same time.	Acceptable Values: path - '/Applications/IntelliJIDEA.app' Default Value: null
plugins - The list of bundled IDE plugins and plugins from the JetBrains Plugin Repository. Notes: For plugins from the JetBrains Plugin Repository use format pluginId:version. For bundled plugins use directory name of the plugin in IDE distribution (e.g. Groovy for IDEA/plugins/Groovy). For sub-projects use project reference project(':subproject').	Acceptable Values: org.plugin.id:version[@channel] 'org.intellij.plugins.markdown:8.5.0', 'org.intellij.scala:2017.2.638@nightly' bundledPluginName 'android', 'Groovy' project(':projectName') project(':plugin-subproject') Default Value: none

Building Properties

Attributes	Values
updateSinceUntilBuild - Should plugin patch plugin.xml with since and until build values? Notes: If true then user-defined values from patchPluginXml.sinceBuild and patchPluginXml.untilBuild will be used (or their default values if none set).	Acceptable Values: true false Default Value: true
sameSinceUntilBuild - Should plugin patch plugin.xml with an until build value that is just an "open" since build? Notes: Is useful for building plugins against EAP IDE builds. If true then the user-defined value from patchPluginXml.sinceBuild (or its default value) will be used as a since and an "open" until value. If patchPluginXml.untilBuild has a value set, then sameSinceUntilBuild is ignored.	Acceptable Values: true false Default Value: false
instrumentCode - Should plugin instrument java classes with nullability assertions and compile forms created by IntelliJ GUI Designer?	Acceptable Values: true false Default Value: true

Run/Debug IDE Properties

Attributes	Values
alternativeIdePath - The absolute path to the locally installed JetBrains IDE. Notes: Use this property if you want to test your plugin in any non-IDEA JetBrains IDE such as WebStorm or Android Studio. Empty value means that the IDE that was used for compiling will be used for running/debugging as well.	Acceptable Values: path - '/Applications/Android Studio.app' Default Value: none
sandboxDirectory - The path of sandbox directory that is used for running IDE with developing plugin.	Acceptable Values: path - '${project.rootDir}/.sandbox' Default Value: '${project.buildDir}/idea-sandbox'

Infrastructure Properties

Attributes	Values
intellijRepo, pluginsRepo, jreRepo - Urls of repositories for downloading IDE distributions, plugin dependencies and JetBrains Java Runtime.	Acceptable Values: url Default Value: jetbrains.com/intellij-repository, plugins.jetbrains.com/maven, jetbrains.bintray.com/intellij-jdk
downloadSources - Should plugin download IntelliJ sources while initializing Gradle build? Notes: Since sources are not needed while testing on CI, you can set it to false for a particular environment.	Acceptable Values: true false Default Value: true if CI environment variable is not set
ideaDependencyCachePath - The absolute path to the local directory that should be used for storing IDE distributions. Notes: Empty value means the Gradle cache directory will be used.	Acceptable Values: path - '<example>' Default Value: none

Running DSL

RunIde tasks (both runIde and buildSearchableOptions) extend JavaExec Gradle task, all configuration attributes of JavaExec task can be used in RunIde as well.

In addition to that, following attributes may be used to customize IDE running:

Attributes	Default Value
jbrVersion JetBrains Java runtime version to use when running the IDE with the plugin.	Acceptable Values: String - E.g. '8u112b752.4', '8u202b1483.24', or '11_0_2b159'. Prefixes jbrex, jbrx or jbr are allowed. All JetBrains Java versions are available at BinTray. Default Value: null for IDE < 2017.3, builtin java version for IDE >= 2017.3
ideaDirectory Path to IDE distribution that will be used to run the IDE with the plugin.	path to IDE-dependency
configDirectory Path to configuration directory.	${intellij.sandboxDirectory}/config
pluginsDirectory Path to plugins directory.	${intellij.sandboxDirectory}/plugins
systemDirectory Path to indexes directory.	${intellij.sandboxDirectory}/system

Patching DSL

The following attributes are a part of the Patching DSL patchPluginXml { ... } in which allows Gradle to patch specific attributes in a set of plugin.xml files.

Attributes	Default Value
version is a value for the <version> tag.	project.version
sinceBuild is for the since-build attribute of the <idea-version> tag.	intellij.version in Branch.Build.Fix format
untilBuild is for the until-build attribute of the <idea-version> tag.	intellij.version in Branch.Build.* format
pluginDescription is for the <description> tag.	none
changeNotes is for the <change-notes> tag.	none
pluginXmlFiles is a collection of xml files to patch.	All plugin.xml files with <idea-plugin>
destinationDir is a directory to store patched xml files.	'${project.buildDir}/patchedPluginXmlFiles'

Publishing DSL

The following attributes are a part of the Publishing DSL publishPlugin { ... } in which allows Gradle to upload a working plugin to the JetBrains Plugin Repository. Note that you need to upload the plugin to the repository at least once manually (to specify options like the license, repository URL etc.) before uploads through Gradle can be used.

See the instruction on how to generate authentication token: https://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/plugin_repository/api/plugin_upload.html

Also here is the tutorial on how to configure plugin publishing: https://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/tutorials/build_system/deployment.html

Attributes	Default Value
token Authentication token.	none
channels List of channel names to upload plugin to.	[default]
host URL host of a plugin repository.	https://plugins.jetbrains.com
distributionFile Jar or Zip file of plugin to upload.	output of buildPlugin task

Instrumenting DSL

The following attributes help you to tune instrumenting behaviour in instrumentCode { ... } block.

Attributes	Default Value
compilerVersion is a version of instrumenting compiler. It's used for non-IDEA plugins (e.g. CLion or Rider).	Build number of the IDE dependency

build.gradle

plugins {
  id "org.jetbrains.intellij" version "0.4.10"
}

intellij {
  version 'IC-2018.3'
  plugins = ['coverage', 'org.intellij.plugins.markdown:8.5.0.20160208']
  pluginName 'MyPlugin'

}
publishPlugin {
  token 'ssdfhasdfASDaq23jhnasdkjh'
  channels 'nightly'
} 

Examples

As examples of using this plugin you can check out following projects:

• Go plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• Erlang plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• Rust plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• AWS CloudFormation plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• Bash plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• Perl5 plugin and its Travis configuration file
• Bamboo Soy plugin and its Travis configuration file
• Android Drawable Importer plugin
• Android Material Design Icon Generator plugin
• AceJump plugin
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
• EmberJS plugin
• HCL plugin
• Robot plugin
• TOML plugin
• SQLDelight Android Studio Plugin
• idear plugin
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
• Android WiFi ADB plugin
• SonarLint plugin
• IdeaVim plugin and its TeamCity build configuration
• Adb Idea is configured to build and run against stable, beta or preview (canary) releases of Android Studio
• Gerrit uses Travis CI inclusive automated publishing of releases to GitHub and JetBrains plugin repository (triggered by version tag creation)
• .ignore
• Minecraft Development and its TeamCity build configuration
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
  • Mixes Java, Kotlin, and Groovy code
  • Uses Grammar Kit
  • Uses a Kotlin version not bundled with IntelliJ
• Mainframer Integration
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
  • Fully written in kotlin
  • Uses RxJava
• Unity 3D plugin for JetBrains Rider
• AEM Tools plugin for Adobe Experience Manager integration
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
  • Fully written in kotlin
  • Uses template language
• F# plugin for JetBrains Rider
  • Uses the Gradle Kotlin DSL
• Intellij Rainbow Brackets
  • Fully written in kotlin
  • Uses other intellij plugins as test dependencies
  • Circle CI configuration file & Travis CI configuration file
  • Gradle task to verify plugin compatibility cross intellij versions
  • Auto subbmit anonymous feedback as github issues

Contributing

Contributing tips:

You can debug the source code of gradle-intellij-plugin (e.g. put breakpoints there) if you add a reference to your local copy into settings.gradle of your IntelliJ plugin:

includeBuild '/path/to/gradle-intellij-plugin'

License

Copyright 2019 org.jetbrains.intellij.plugins

    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
    You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    limitations under the License.

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