Plugin Descriptor

If you configure the maven.idea_plugin.descriptor (META-INF/plugin.xml) property, your configuration file will be pre-processed by the maven's Velocity engine.

In that case you can refer to the current version of the project by adding ${pom.currentVersion} somewhere in your configuration file.

Sample : 

                
<!DOCTYPE idea-plugin SYSTEM "http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin.dtd">
<idea-plugin url="${pom.url}">
    <name>${pom.name}</name>
    <description>${pom.description}</description>
    <version>${pom.currentVersion}</version>
    ...
    <application-components>
        <component>
            ...
        </component>
    </application-components>

    <actions>
        <action id="Actions.ActionsPlugin.UltraEditAction" class="com.agf.test.runner.UltraEditAction" text="UltraEdit" description="Open in UltraEdit."/>
        ...
    </actions>
</idea-plugin>

Plugin Dependency

Internal

For using IDEA dependencies in your plug-in, you had to do 2 steps :

  • Declare dependency in the project.xml file.
  • Override dependency in the project.properties file.:

    Example :

In the project.xml In the project.properties 
                                
<project>
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>jalopy-intellij</id>
   ....
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <id>idea</id>
           <version>4.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
           <id>idea-jdom</id>
           <version>4.0</version>
       </dependency>
       ....
   </dependencies>
   ....
</project>
                 
                            
                                
...
# --------------------------------------------
# M A V E N  J A R  O V E R R I D E (for IDEA)
# --------------------------------------------
maven.jar.override = on
maven.jar.idea = ${maven.idea.root}/lib/idea.jar
maven.jar.idea-jdom = ${maven.idea.root}/lib/jdom.jar

External

If your plug-in use external dependencies (not in IDEA) you must add a property in the dependency tag of your project.xml.

    Example :

In the project.xml In the project.properties 
                                
<project>
    <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
    <id>jalopy-intellij</id>
    ...
    <dependencies>
        ....
        <!-- JALOPY lib -->
        <dependency>
            <id>jalopy</id>
            <version>1.0b10</version>
            <properties>
                <idea.plugin.lib>true</idea.plugin.lib>
            </properties>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>
...
</project>
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