Howto debug plugin for pre-existing project (Sonar plugin)

Hello Derrick,

The exception is a bug in the Sonar plugin; the plugin.xml references an
action that doesn't exist.

To use the IntelliJ plugin development features, instead of importing the
Maven project, you need to create a new IntelliJ project and add the idea/plugin.iml
module to it. You'll also need to create an IntelliJ IDEA SDK pointing to
your IntelliJ IDEA installation.

It has been my intent to fix bug SONARIDE-186
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SONARIDE-186) for the Sonar Intellij
Plugin. I've succesfully checked out the pre-existing code from here
https://svn.codehaus.org/sonar-ide/trunk/ and compiled the code.

I tried to test the plugin by copying the resulting .jar into
~/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIdea10CE ( OSX 10.6 ). But when
start Intellij I get an exception

  ERROR - nSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl - action specified
by reference isn't registered (ID=Sonar.ShowMeasures) [Plugin:
org.sonar.ide.idea]
com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: action specified by reference
isn't registered (ID=Sonar.ShowMeasures)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.reportActionE
rror(ActionManagerImpl.java:915)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.processRefere
nceElement(ActionManagerImpl.java:833)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.processGroupE
lement(ActionManagerImpl.java:549)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.processAction
sChildElement(ActionManagerImpl.java:863)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.registerPlugi
nActions(ActionManagerImpl.java:206)
at
com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl.<init>(Action
ManagerImpl.java:137)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructo
rAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingCo
nstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
I want to be able to use Intellij for debuging the plugin, but when I
create a new run configuration of type 'Idea Plugin' the 'Choose
classpath and jdk from module' drop down is empty. How do I get
itellij to recognize the 'idea' module in the project is a 'idea
plugin'.

Thanks,

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