Robot Framework Plugin for IntelliJ started

[Stephen Abrams]

Hello all,

My company recently had an overnight 'hackmatch' and a group of us decided to write a plugin for IntelliJ to support Robot Framework. It is fairly limited at present, written to support Robot text files the way our team is accustomed to writing them, but its a great start - we're already using it day-to-day. We'd love to see others use and contribute to this plugin. 

Anyone interested could probably install it and get limited support, depending on how you write your Robot files.

https://github.com/millennialmedia/intellibot

For anyone interested in developing the plugin further:

- We used the Cucumber-JVM plugin as a reference point: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins

- http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/PluginDevelopment

- http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins

[Pekka Klärck]

2013/12/3 Stephen Abrams <Abrams....@gmail.com>:

>
> My company recently had an overnight 'hackmatch' and a group of us decided
> to write a plugin for IntelliJ to support Robot Framework. It is fairly
> limited at present, written to support Robot text files the way our team is
> accustomed to writing them, but its a great start - we're already using it
> day-to-day. We'd love to see others use and contribute to this plugin.
>
> Anyone interested could probably install it and get limited support,
> depending on how you write your Robot files.
>
> https://github.com/millennialmedia/intellibot

Awesome!! Have you tested does the plugin also work with JetBrains
PyCharm? I use it for most of my Python coding and having Robot plugin
on it would be sweeeet!

> For anyone interested in developing the plugin further:
> - We used the Cucumber-JVM plugin as a reference point:
> https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins
> - http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/PluginDevelopment
> - http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins

Looks good. Have you considered could this plugin and the Eclipse
plugin <https://github.com/NitorCreations/RobotFramework-EclipseIDE>
possibly share some code? I have zero experience developing IDE
plugins, but I would assume it's possible to have at least some of the
business logic decoupled so that it could be reused across different
plugins. Possibly stuff like parsing the data could even be extracted
to a separate project so that it could be used also for other
purposes.

Cheers,
.peke
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[Pekka Klärck]

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2013/12/3 Stephen Abrams <Abrams....@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Pekka Klärck <pe...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Awesome!! Have you tested does the plugin also work with JetBrains
>> PyCharm? I use it for most of my Python coding and having Robot plugin
>> on it would be sweeeet!
>
>

> I just gave it a shot and it does not work out of the box - I'm hoping its
> all in the configuration
> (http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Plugin+Compatibility+with+IntelliJ+Platform+Products).
> I'll take a look.

Great, thanks! If you need to think about versions, I would say that
at least with PyCharm supporting only 3+ is fine.

>> > For anyone interested in developing the plugin further:
>> > - We used the Cucumber-JVM plugin as a reference point:
>> > https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins
>> > - http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/PluginDevelopment
>> > - http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins
>>
>> Looks good. Have you considered could this plugin and the Eclipse
>> plugin <https://github.com/NitorCreations/RobotFramework-EclipseIDE>
>> possibly share some code? I have zero experience developing IDE
>> plugins, but I would assume it's possible to have at least some of the
>> business logic decoupled so that it could be reused across different
>> plugins. Possibly stuff like parsing the data could even be extracted
>> to a separate project so that it could be used also for other
>> purposes.
>

> There may be some gems in there for sure. We were hoping to plug the Python
> lexer you had written, but found that the IntelliJ lexer goes token by
> token, where yours used a line by line approach. It was effective for us to
> extract the spec, however.

Unfortunate you couldn't use the lexer but great that it worked as a
spec. Is our new lexer tied to IntelliJ or could it possibly be used
by others too?

[Stephen Abrams]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Pekka Klärck <pe...@iki.fi> wrote:

[Add robotframework-users back to Cc.]

>> Awesome!! Have you tested does the plugin also work with JetBrains
>> PyCharm? I use it for most of my Python coding and having Robot plugin
>> on it would be sweeeet!
>
>
> I just gave it a shot and it does not work out of the box - I'm hoping its
> all in the configuration
> (http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Plugin+Compatibility+with+IntelliJ+Platform+Products).
> I'll take a look.

Great, thanks! If you need to think about versions, I would say that
at least with PyCharm supporting only 3+ is fine.

 

All set! Latest commit allows the plugin to work with PyCharm (remember our support is still limited - I've noticed some significant stability bugs) 

>> > For anyone interested in developing the plugin further:
>> > - We used the Cucumber-JVM plugin as a reference point:
>> > https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins
>> > - http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/PluginDevelopment
>> > - http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins
>>
>> Looks good. Have you considered could this plugin and the Eclipse
>> plugin <https://github.com/NitorCreations/RobotFramework-EclipseIDE>
>> possibly share some code? I have zero experience developing IDE
>> plugins, but I would assume it's possible to have at least some of the
>> business logic decoupled so that it could be reused across different
>> plugins. Possibly stuff like parsing the data could even be extracted
>> to a separate project so that it could be used also for other
>> purposes.
>
> There may be some gems in there for sure. We were hoping to plug the Python
> lexer you had written, but found that the IntelliJ lexer goes token by
> token, where yours used a line by line approach.  It was effective for us to
> extract the spec, however.

Unfortunate you couldn't use the lexer but great that it worked as a
spec. Is our new lexer tied to IntelliJ or could it possibly be used
by others too?

The interfaces exposed to write the plugin seem to couple the implementation to JetBrains plugins pretty tightly. I'm guessing an adapter would be possible. I don't believe the Cucumber-JVM impl makes use of the Gherkin lexer either (https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin), but would be worth another look.

[Pekka Klärck]

2013/12/4 Stephen Abrams <Abrams....@gmail.com>:

>
> All set! Latest commit allows the plugin to work with PyCharm (remember our
> support is still limited - I've noticed some significant stability bugs)

Awesome! I definitely need to test this out.

> The interfaces exposed to write the plugin seem to couple the implementation
> to JetBrains plugins pretty tightly. I'm guessing an adapter would be
> possible. I don't believe the Cucumber-JVM impl makes use of the Gherkin
> lexer either (https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin), but would be worth
> another look.

I was actually thinking could your lexer be reused by others using
Java. That's obviously a yagni right now, extracting it to a separate
project can be done later if there's a concrete need.

[Deville_RobotUser]

Hi, thanks a lot for this plugin !

I recently started using Jetbrains IDEs (RubyMine and Pycharm) and I find this plugin very interesting (and it works for both !):)

I just have 1 remark concerning the automatically detected files : it seems the extension of the files has to be .robot to have the plugin work.

Can the plugin be configured so that .txt files may also be considered ?! (I share several hundred of tests with other QAs of my company, and renaming all the tests may be an issue :(

Thanks for your answer / support !

Cheers

Jean-Charles Deville

[Regis Desgroppes]

Hi,
Wow, now we have 2 published plugins from competing efforts:
* http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7386
* http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7415
... I'll give a try to both and decide from both usability and ease of maintenance considerations.
Regards,
Regis

[Ariel Cossio]

Hi Jean-Charles Deville, you can change the file types for Robot Feature Files in the Settings section to have .txt files recognized by the plugin.  At least that works in PyCharm.

Regards,

Ariel

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[Deville, Jean-Charles]

Yep it works fine indeed J

Thanks Ariel for this information.

Cheers

JCDeville

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