Thanks for starting this discussion Ingo. I guess that Dian can probably answer this question. I am big +1 for updating our documentation for how to set up the IDE since this problem will probably be encountered a couple of times.
Cheers, Till On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:03 AM Ingo Bürk <i...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hello @dev, > > like probably most of you, I am using IntelliJ to work on Flink. Lately I > needed to also work with flink-python, and thus was wondering about how to > properly set it up to work in IntelliJ. So far, I have done the following: > > 1. Install the Python plugin > 2. Set up a custom Python SDK using a virtualenv > 3. Configure the flink-python module to use this Python SDK (rather than a > Java SDK) > 4. Install as many of the Python dependencies as possible when IntelliJ > prompted me to do so > > This got me into a mostly working state, for example I can run tests from > the IDE, at least the ones I tried so far. However, there are two concerns: > > a) Step (3) will be undone on every Maven import since Maven sets the SDK > for the module > b) Step (4) installed most, but a couple of Python dependencies could not > be installed, though so far that didn't cause noticeable problems > > I'm wondering if there are additional / different steps to do, specifically > for (a), and maybe how the PyFlink developers are configuring this in their > IDE. The IDE setup guide didn't seem to contain information about that > (only about separately setting up this module in PyCharm). Ideally, we > could even update the IDE setup guide. > > > Best > Ingo >
