Robotlegs Plugin for IntelliJ

So I started a little plugin a few days ago. I’m writing it for IntelliJ and it’s designed to make your life a little simpler, letting you navigate between classes with known ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ relationships in Robotlegs MVCS. Eg, The view is “Up” from the mediator and the service is “Down” from a command.

IntelliJ is really cool.

Apart from finding great little timesavers all the time, this is my first exposure to the underlying code of IntelliJ. It looks a little ‘patternitis’ but everything makes sense, and even the closed source ‘JavaScript’ plugin was easy enough to take advantage of with just headers.

It’s also my first time into Java, and the experience has been made sweet because:

1. IntelliJ is a great IDE and makes light work of what would be chore-like coding
2. IntelliJ is written with IntelliJ, and all the Best Practices and quality coding behaviours that IntelliJ promotes, are included in the “OpenAPI”

I mean the Javadocs are ancient and out of date, and some things are clearly legacy, and yet me, a n00b Java programmer had no trouble cobbling together the first part of the Robotlegs plugin.

The Plugin, where’s that then?

Here: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&id=4685 which means it’s also available in your IDE.

You may need the EAP version of IntelliJ as that is what I coded against.

It only does one thing right now. If you are in a mediator, then Ctrl-Alt-PageUp will take you to the linked in view. There is a roadmap here and all the source is here

All the design is in place and a lot of the ‘discovery’ is done. So things should fall into place. Let me know if you have any trouble with it.