Plugin Developer Guide

Testing/Debugging the plugin using IntelliJ IDEA

1. Go to File -> Open and open the cloned repository using IntelliJ IDEA.

2. Import Project from Gradle settings window will be shown. Select the Gradle Home path and select OK.

3. From the Gradle projects tool window, run runIde task. This will build the plugin and a new IDEA instance will be started with the plugin installed.

If the Gradle projects window is not visible, you can use View -> Tool Windows -> Gradle to go to the Gradle projects tool window.

4. In addition to the above method, you can also add a Gradle configuration to Run or Debug the plugin.

• Go to Run -> Edit Configurations.

• Add a new Gradle Configuration.

• Select the plugin-intellij project as the Gradle project.

• Add runIde to the Tasks.

• Now you can Run or Debug the plugin using the created Gradle configuration very easily.