dbeaver / idea-rcp-launch-config-generator

Eclipse RCP launch configuration generator for IDEA

Eclipse RCP launcher generator for IDEA

Instructions

• Clone repositories
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver-common
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver (only if you need web based Beaver too)
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-workspace-dbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-rcp-launch-config-generator
• Launch IDEA
• Open IDEA project (e.g. idea-workspace-dbeaver)
• Build project (CTRL+F9)
• Execute run configuration Generate DBeaver CE dev props (it will generate RCP config files)
• Execute run configuration Run Eclipse (CE) (it will launch DBeaver CE)
• Set variable ECLIPSE_PATH to the path where you want to keep external dependencies

Now you can debug code in IDEA, modify Java classes on fly, etc.

Configuration

This tool generates the dev.properties and config.ini files needed to run the project in the dev environment.

Accepts the following required parameters:

Parameter	Description
-config	Path to file with configuration
-eclipse.version	Version of eclipse(use ${eclipse-version} for maven version)
-productFile	Path to .product file
-projectsFolder	Path to projects folder
-eclipse	Path to folder with eclipse and other dependencies, should be the same The same as ECLIPSE_PATH in IDEA preferences(optional, ${projectsFolder}/../dbeaver-workspace will be used if not specifed)
-output	Place for result files
-testBundles	Bundles required for launching unit tests

For example, the command to create files for CB CE:

./eclipse-rcp-launcher -productFile $PROJECTS_DIR$/cloudbeaver/server/product/web-server/CloudbeaverServer.product -projectsFolder $PROJECTS_DIR$ -eclipse $ECLIPSE_PATH$ -output $PROJECT_DIR$/../eclipse/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/CloudbeaverServer.product'

Configuration file:

featuresPaths=dbeaver/features;
bundlesPaths=\
  dbeaver-common/modules;\
  dbeaver/plugins;
repositories=\
  https://p2.dev.dbeaver.com/eclipse-repo/;\
  https://download.eclipse.org/elk/updates/releases/0.8.1/;

featuresPaths: list of paths to Eclipse features folders
bundlesPaths: list of paths to Eclipse bundles folders repositories: list of repositories used to download third-party bundles from

Preconfigured file rcp-gen.properties reside in repository idea-workspace-dbeaver

Note: Technically this tool should work with any Eclipse RCP, not just dbeaver or cloudbeaver.