Swift

An IntelliJ plugin that provides syntax highlighting and code navigation for the Swift language.

Gradle

Generate gradlew and the gradle directory by running:

gradle wrapper --gradle-version 9.3.1

Before running the wrapper, make sure Gradle is installed using brew install gradle.

Note that gradlew will not work without the gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar JAR file. Either commit both the gradlew file and the gradle directory, or commit neither of them.

Build

Use the build task to build the plugin and run tests/checks.

./gradlew clean build

The buildPlugin task is a packaging task that produces the installable JAR file. To package the plugin, Gradle first whatever inputs it needs (compile, process resources, JAR, patching plugin XML, and so on). In other words, buildPlugin normally depends on the build output; it just will not run the tests/checks that the build task does.

./gradlew buildPlugin

Running the clean task is not usually necessary when only editing files. It is mainly useful when the Gradle version or configuration changes, or when the target platform changes (for example, the IntelliJ version).

./gradlew clean buildPlugin

Run the plugin in IntelliJ

There is no need to install the plugin in IntelliJ every time. We can run it in a separate IntelliJ instance using the runIde task. This will automatically install the plugin and start the IDE.

By default (that is, when running ./gradlew runIde), this instance uses the .build/idea-sandbox directory for its configuration. This directory is deleted when running the clean task, which removes all settings for the test instance. To avoid this, we can set a different sandbox path. We can also configure this in build.gradle so we do not need to specify it every time.

./gradlew runIde -Pintellij.sandboxDir="$PWD/.intellij-temporary/"