Eclipse Che: Unable to add plug-in automatically in workspace using Devfile for IntelliJ IDEA Community Editor about che

[dkwon17]

Hi, I don't think this is supported, any ideas @azatsarynnyy ?

[azatsarynnyy]

I'm not sure If IDEA has a functionality similar to VS Code's extensions.json. If it does - it should work.
AFAIK, there's nothing in Devfile itself for installing IDEA plugins.

[monaka]

Maybe .idea/externalDepencies.xml is. An example: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/.idea/externalDependencies.xml

[debkantap]

Thanks everyone for the response.. I shall test this and post here.

Thanks & Regards
Debkanta

[debkantap]

I tried it..but getiing the following error:
"Requied Plugins not loaded. Project 'java-spring-petclinic-modified' requires '233.13135.103' or newer build of the IDE, but the current build is '221.5080.210"
This is what I did:

1. I forked the https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-devfile-registry
2. Copied the https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-devfile-registry/tree/main/devfiles/java-web-spring to another folder "java-web-spring-modified" and changed to meta.yaml to map to my devfile registry "java-spring-petclinic-modified"
3. Then I modified the "java-spring-petclinic-modified" and added the ".idea" folder with externalDependencies.xml
4. The content of my externalDependencies.xml is as below:

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---- 5. then I build my devfile registry and created the custom image for devfile 6. Using that custom devfile image I deploted eclipse che on k8s 7. then tried to open the devfile by selecting the intellij editor and getting the error as mentioned above.

I am wondering where from the version of intellij is selected by che devworkspace manager and how do I modify that?

Request you help please.

Thanks & regards
Debkanta

[debkantap]

@monaka ...any help please.

TR
Debkanta