What does PSI stand for? Follow
Long time IntelliJ Ultimate user, first time Community explorer :)
I am going over the source for IntelliJ's Community Edition and I keep bumping in the characters PSI and was wondering what it meant. Is it an abbreviation?
Thanks in advance.
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It's an abbreviation for Program Structure Interface. Read the section "Implementing a Parser and PSI" at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/idea_5.0.html (a bit old but still useful) for more information on how it is implemented in IntelliJ.
Note that we have a dedicated group for such sort of questions:
http://devnet.jetbrains.net/community/idea/open_api_and_plugin_development
Thanks for the info, I will have a look at the documentation!
Sorry, will post in the correct place next time.