Something duration the development of the Intellig plugin

pomodprp-schedule

Intellig plugin for time management

some concept

• plugins.xml
• Action
  • definition, is the response of the interaction of user’s operations
    and all the actions need to be defined and registered in IntelliJ platform
  • how to
    • define a custom action which needs to extend AnAction who is an abstract class
    • override actionPerformed method, this method will be triggered when user invokes some actions
    • override update method, this method will use to enable the action and the default is enabled
    • register custom action in plugin.xml
  • how to group actions
    • add to a existing group
      • add tab <group>
      • bind action to group by using tab <add-to-group> with the property relative-to-action
    • create a new group
      • Extending DefaultActionGroup
      • register new group
  • how to do data persistence
    • the persistence data class is separated with the settings
    • combine the settings into one class

      public void loadState(MyService state) {
        XmlSerializerUtil.copyBean(state, this);
      }

  • how to show UI
    • how to show input
    • how to upload file
    • tips
      • If your project is built by Gradle, GUI Designer will not generate java source code.
      • you can generate sources code as following: using idea to build code
  • how to show dialog
    • go to your src folder->New->Swing GUI Designer->input required info->create
    • if the UI related java code could not generate automatically, you can check the following
      setting
      
  • how to show PopupList
  • how to add widget
    • add a widget factory then register it
      • <statusBarWidgetFactory implementation="pomodoro.widget.PomodoroWidgetFactory"/>
  • how to release a plugin in JetBrains MarketSpace
    • using gradle sign
    • using CTL
      • package your code into zip file, running cmd ./gradlew build, then you can find your plugin in the directory ./build/distributions
      • try plugin in your local machine
        
      • If the following error occurs to u,

        • Plugin 'Kotlin' (version '211-1.5.20-release-284-IJ7442.40') is not compatible with the current version of the IDE, because it requires build 211.* or older but the current build is IU-212.4746.92
          * you might set specific IDE build version in `build.gradle` and add build start version in `plugin.xml` like
          ```xml
            version.set(
              System.getenv().getOrDefault(
                      "IJ_VERSION",
                      "213.7172.25"
              )
            )
          <idea-version since-build="213.7172.25"/>
          

      • If everything is ok at here
        • generate private key

          openssl genpkey\
            -aes-256-cbc\
            -algorithm RSA\
            -out private.pem\
            -pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:4096

      • generate certificate

        openssl req\
          -key private.pem\
          -new\
          -x509\
          -days 365\
          -out chain.crt

      • sign your plugin zip. Download the latest marketplace-zip-client
        If the password includes some special characters, you need to add a escape character before it.

        java -jar marketplace-zip-signer-cli.jar sign\
          -in "unsigned.zip"\
          -out "signed.zip"\
          -cert-file "/path/to/chain.crt"\
          -key-file "/path/to/private.pem"\
          -key-pass "PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD"

      • create jetBrains account, here I use google account. upload your plugin and wait two business days. Market will send you the verification result.