Need help with extending the Properties plugin functionality
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I'm writing a plugin that extends the Properties functionality by adding a new context menu to the Structure view. When I right-click on a property in a Structure view, I invoke a custom action which needs to send the information about the property elsewhere. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to obtain that information in my actionPerformed() method. How can I know which property is currently selected? And how do I get the value of this property? I was able to obtain a PsiFile from AnActionEvent but that's where I got stuck.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Eugene.
P.S. Also, I can't figure out how to add the properties plugin dependency to my Gradle build. How can I find its group ID and artifact ID?
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use PropertiesImplUtil.getPropertiesFile(PsiElement) to obtain a PropertiesFile from PsiFile and after that call PropertiesFile#findPropertyByKey(String key) method.
to get selected property from Structure view: LangDataKeys.PSI_ELEMENT_ARRAY.getData(actionDataContext) this should help you to get selected properties.
Thanks, Dmitry, this is exactly what I was looking for. One other problem is that I can't figure out how to add the Properties maven dependency to my POM or Gradle. What is the group ID and artifact ID for the properties.jar? As far as I can tell, it's a separate plugin and not part of the IDEA SDK, am I right?
Did you try to specify it in "intellij.plugins" (as written in https://github.com/JetBrains/gradle-intellij-plugin)?
Yep, figured it out, thanks again!