Is there path macros in IntelliJ IDEA that points to project directory ? (IDEA 10.5.2) - macros

Is there path macros in IntelliJ IDEA that points to project directory ?
In build 10.5.2 that I have
${PROJECT_DIR}
is null.
Thanks!

Some fields in IDEA run/debug configuration indeed accept ${PROJECT_DIR} and ${MODULE_DIR} variables, for example the working directory field, however it's not available in all the fields, like in your case when you want to pass a parameter to the GWT compiler.
There is already an open issue related to your request, but you can file another one if you want.

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Is there a way to make IntelliJ IDEA *not* put Scala source files in their Java-style package directory?

In Java, you have to put source files in the directory structure corresponding to their package. foo.bar.Baz has to live in foo/bar/Baz.java.
In Scala, that requirement is relaxed. If all your classes in a particular project are in package foo.bar, you might just want them to live in the root source directory.
But IDEA flags this as an error, and forces me to put Scala classes in their Java-style directory when, for example, I copy or move classes. Is there a way to turn off this behavior?
Go Settings -> Scala -> Other settings -> Resolve to all classes, even in wrong directories.

How to compare files programmatically in eclipse?

I am developing an eclipse plugin that runs code violation checker on the difference of two versions of a file. Right now I am using diff.exe to get the difference between the two files. But as diff.exe is an extrenal app, I realized that its better to use eclipse built-in compare tool to get the file difference.
So I used org.eclipse.compare and reached up to this point:
public static List<Patch> compare(String old, String recent) {
try{
IRangeComparator left = new TokenComparator(old); //what exactly to be passed in this constructor, a file path, a literal value or something else?
IRangeComparator right = new TokenComparator(recent);
RangeDifference[] diffs = RangeDifferencer.findDifferences(left, right); // This line is throwing NPE
//..
// Process RangeDifferences into Collection of Patch collection
//..
}catch(Exception e){}
//Returns a collection of file differences.
return null;
}
Now the problem is I am not sure what exactly to be passed in the constructor TokenComparator(String). The document says this constructor Creates a TokenComparator for the given string. But it is not written what exactly to be passed in this constructor, a file path, a literal value or something else? When I'm passing a file path or a string literal I am getting NullPointerException on the next line of finding differences.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.compare.internal.core.LCS.isCappingDisabled(LCS.java:98)
at org.eclipse.compare.internal.core.LCS.longestCommonSubsequence(LCS.java:55)
at org.eclipse.compare.rangedifferencer.RangeComparatorLCS.longestCommonSubsequence(RangeComparatorLCS.java:186)
at org.eclipse.compare.rangedifferencer.RangeComparatorLCS.findDifferences(RangeComparatorLCS.java:31)
at org.eclipse.compare.rangedifferencer.RangeDifferencer.findDifferences(RangeDifferencer.java:98)
at org.eclipse.compare.rangedifferencer.RangeDifferencer.findDifferences(RangeDifferencer.java:82)
at org.eclipse.compare.rangedifferencer.RangeDifferencer.findDifferences(RangeDifferencer.java:67)
at com.dassault_systemes.eclipseplugin.codemonview.util.CodeMonDiff.compare(CodeMonDiff.java:48)
at com.dassault_systemes.eclipseplugin.codemonview.util.CodeMonDiff.main(CodeMonDiff.java:56)
Someone please tell what is right way to proceed.
If the question is What value the token comparators constructor takes then the answer is it takes the input string to compare. Specified in javadoc here http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fcompare%2Fcontentmergeviewer%2FTokenComparator.html
TokenComparator(String text)
Creates a TokenComparator for the given string.
And the null pointer yo are getting is because in function isCappingDisabled it tries to open the compare plugin which seems to be null. You seem to be missing a direct dependency to the plugin "org.eclipse.compare.core"
The org.eclipse.compare plugin was never meant to be used in standalone : many of its functionalities require a running instance of Eclipse. Furthermore, it mixes core and UI code within the same plugin, which will lead to unexpected behavior if you are not very careful about what you use and what dependencies are actually available in your environment.
You mentionned that you were developping an Eclipse plugin. However, the NPE you get indicates that you are not running your code as an Eclipse plugin, but rather as a standard Java program. In an Eclipse environment, ComparePlugin.getDefault() cannot return null : the plugin needs to be started for that call to return anything but null.... and the mere loading of the ComparePlugin class within Eclipse is enough to start it.
The answer will be a choice :
You need your code to run as a standalone Java program out of Eclipse. In such an event, you cannot use org.eclipse.compare and diff.exe is probably your best choice (or you could switch to an implementation of diff that was implemented in Java in order to be independent of the platform).
You do not need your program to work in a standalone environment, only as an Eclipse plugin. In this case, you can keep the code you're using. However, when you run your code, you have to launch it as a new "Eclipse application" instead of "Java Application". You might want to look at a tutorial on how to develop Eclipse plugins for this, This simple tutorial from Lars Vogel shows how to run a new Eclipse Application to test an Hello World plugin. You will need a similar code, with a menu entry to launch your plugin somewhere (right-click on a file then select "check violations" in your case?).

Gwt i18n > generating properties files

I'm using GWT in my stuff, and I would like to make it,
international, so I use GWT constants method.
I have a java file with defaults, and I now need to make properties files.
In a remember, there is a special thing to do (or done automagically) to generate
a kind of template where all constants are generated with empty labels for other langages.
Did I dream this ?
(using eclipse indigo to develop webapp with gwt but not gae)
[edit:]
this was not a dream, it's i18ncreator:
http://code.google.com/intl/fr-FR/webtoolkit/doc/latest/RefCommandLineTools.html#i18nCreator
but I can't make it working on windows :-(
[edit again ]
due to this issue : http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5113
recommended solution is use i18ncreator in gwt 1.7 (!)
you should see the page on locales in GWT
I had the same issue. I was looking all over the place for the answer but could not find an answer; either in the docs or on stackoverflow.
So I asked in the GWT gitter channel and was told to use the compiler argument
-extra <destination-folder-name>
to generate the .properties files from the Interface files.
Steps in eclipse:
Select project you want to compile
[right click] -> Google -> GWT Compile
In the window that opens, open the Advanded options.
Add the following additional compiler argument -extra <destination-folder-name>
Compile
This should generate the *.properties files in the /destination-folder-name.
NOTE: This only generates the .properties files. It does not actually compile the application with all the locales for deploy.
Move the MyInterfaceExtension_*.properties to be right beside the MyInterfaceExtension.java file.
Make copies for each locale i.e. MyInterfaceExtension_fr_CA.properties, MyInterfaceExtension_fr_FR.properties, etc..
Translate them
Then run the compilation process again with out the -extra <destination-folder-name> option. Because it is not needed anymore.
This will compile with all the locales you enabled. You can now deploy the app the usual way.
Quick Tips:
When compiling for the first time in order to generate the .properties file, I commented out the locales in the module definition file so that the compiler will not sit there and compile again and again for every browser and every locale
i.e. supported_browser_count x enabled_locale_count = 5 browsers x 3 locales = 15 compilation Permutations, which is going to increase your compilation time.
Because, all I needed was that one *_en.properties file.
For the second compilation, after you copied and translated the properties files for each locale, you have to enable all the locales you want to support and compile.
Credits:
github #niloc132 : Colin Alworth
github #ibaca : Ignacio Baca Moreno-Torres
For helping me with this.
For my project, I used the i18n-Creator
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideI18n.html#DevGuidePropertiesFiles
It kind of does the opposite of what you are asking for. With the i18n-creator, you create the properties files for the various locales and run the script that is generated with the i18n-creator, and it will generate the constants interface.
I haven't heard yet of this feature in Eclipse but IntelliJ IDEA has this feature, you just create the Constants Interface class and the properties file. If you add a method in the class file it will warn you to add the property or the other way around. HTH.

Buildr: adding a path to the generated eclipse/idea files

I have a legacy java project that we have been moving to buildr/artifactory from ant/jars in svn.
The primary code is in the default (src/main/java) folder, but we have a few external source paths, for various tests that we can't move into the default folder, but we want to have access with it.
Currently, when adding a new library/regenerating IDE fields, it does not pick up these source paths, and I can't find a succinct discussion in the buildr manual for how to actually add them, rather than re-adding everything manually in eclipse (which just gets wiped out on the next regen).
Any idea how to have multiple source paths get picked up explicitly by buildr so that the idea/eclipse targets generate properly?
There are two ways that I know will work with IDEA. The second one might also work with Eclipse, while the first is specific to the idea task.
The IDEA-specific solution:
define 'proj' do
# ...
iml.main_source_directories << _('src/other')
end
iml also has test_source_directories and excluded_directories arrays you can append to.
The possibly eclipse-compatible solution, with more background than you probably want:
The iml object gets its default values for the main and test source directory arrays from project.compile.sources and project.test.compile.sources (slight simplification; resources are considered also). Buildr defines these .sources project attributes from the layout, so instead of explicitly appending to the iml attributes, you could use a custom layout for your project that includes your special source paths. That might work with the eclipse task, but I haven't tried it.

Erlang erlIDE: what are the -compile options supported?

I've been trying to get erlIDE to work with -compile options e.g.
-compile('S'). % Generate 'assembler' listing
to no avail. What I am doing wrong?
NOTE: I have also tried setting 'project specific' options for the compiler with no success.
EDIT: could it be that 'erlc' is invoked and forced to generate a 'beam' and thus disregards orders to generate 'assembler' output?
This is badly supported, currently, sorry about that. With recent releases of erlide, the .S files are created in the workspace directory instead of project/ebin. This is caused by the fact that the compiler uses the current directory, ignoring the outdir option, in this case.
regards,
Vlad