Thank you very much Jacques for your precious advice and your feedback.
I'll work on a pull request to ofbiz-tools (which i didn't know about)
or think about an other way to share the plugin, and see for a demo video.
Once these are done properly, i can get started on other ideas you gave me.
Gaetan
OFBiz enthusiast and junior dev
On 26/11/2021 17:05, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 26/11/2021 à 15:52, Gaetan a écrit :
Hello OFBiz community,
A few weeks ago, we made an announcement for an IDEA plugin for OFBiz.
Though we didn't get any return on it, we'd like to insist on what
this may bring to the community.
It was designed to make OFBiz development easier, mostly for junior
OFBiz devs.
Seniors have their own habits for navigation towards service, entity,
or file locations, but for a junior (such as me) it can be difficult
at first.
We made this as the tool I'd have liked to have when I began working
with ofbiz.
For example let's see this case (from `ContentManagmentServices.java`):
```java
Map<String, Object> thisResult = dispatcher.runSync("createContent",
contentContext);
if (ServiceUtil.isError(thisResult) ||
ServiceUtil.isFailure(thisResult)) {
return
ServiceUtil.returnError(UtilProperties.getMessage(resource,
"ContentContentCreatingError", UtilMisc.toMap("serviceName",
"persistContentAndAssoc"), locale), null, null, thisResult);
}
```
For a junior, it might be unclear where to find the definition of the
`createContent` service.
The plugin allows you to simply `CTRL+Click` on the service name to
navigate towards the definition.
As a bonus, you can even `CTRL+Click`the name of the label and
navigate to the property definition.
The same goes for entity name (and we plan to add a quick doc popup
for fields contained in the entity definition).
We really think this has the potential to soften the framework's
first impression of complexity that some people might feel.
Knowing that a tool exists to help you build with OFBiz could help a
lot.
The idea is to get feedback of the interest for the community and to
eventually contribute it into Apache OFBiz repository.
Is there a place to find OFBiz related tools, or should we let it in
Github as it is (https://github.com/Nereide-lab/idea-ofbiz-plugin)?
Gaetan,
OFBiz junior dev and enthusiast.
Hi Gaetan,
It sounds like a great improvement for InteliJ users. Notably, as you
mention, new comers.
There is an official tools repository*. It could be the place to put
this new tool to allow easy download, maybe not the best place though.
But I think more should be done. It should be advertised using the
usual tools: blog, tweeter, maybe a Youtube demo, etc. (see the
official site**)
I ever think that a dedicated page on the site should be created, or
maybe a subpage of community, a word in the FAQ, etc.
This said I'm an Eclipse old timer and I can't give any feedback on
the tool itself ;)
* https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ofbiz-tools.git and related
https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-tools
** https://ofbiz.apache.org/
Jacques
