Progress Bar with Write Action

Hello Misha,

I searched the forum but could not find an answer. I am doing a Write
Action and would like to display it's progress. Is there any API in
IDEA that will allow me to do this? I tried to do it as Task.Modal but
it still was executed not on UI thread.

The action is downloading from the Internet so it is potentially long
and involves saving downloaded files on Virtual File System - which is
a write operation.

No, write actions always run on the UI thread and cannot display any progress.
The correct way to implement this is to perform the download without taking
either a read or a write action, show the progress in a usual way, save the
downloaded contents to disk using java.io APIs, and then perform a VFS refresh
inside a write action (this is fast so it doesn't need a progress indicator).

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Dmitry Jemerov
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Thanks Dmitry,

I considered what you propose as an option but I do not know IDEA VFS that well and I thought that it may handle internally cases that are not trivial to handle with Java I/O, like write permissions or non-local storage. Anyway, thanks a lot, I will do exactly what you propose.

Best regards,

Misha