How to disable auto expanding of $PROJECT_DIR$ etc (PathMacro) for my plugin settings ?

Hi,

I have a simple settings class which stores my plugin settings, like this one below.

My settings UI stores collapsed paths in the "excludeFiles" map.
For example my dialog stores a "$PROJECT_DIR$/hello.xml" entry in this map.
This works. The persistent "my-settings.xml" file stores "$PROJECT_DIR$/hello.xml".

But when I restart IDEA and the settings are reloaded from the persistent file,
the HashMap does no longer contains $PROJECT_DIR$.
The entries are expanded. So the entry is "/path_to_project/hello.xml".

It seems that the deserializer automatically expand all strings (?).

My question is, is there are a easy way to avoid this without to bloat the code up ?

I know that it is possible to use f. e. PersistentStateComponent<org.jdom.Element>
instead of PersistentStateComponent<MySettings> and write the XML serialization/deserialization by myself
but I want to avoid this.

My settings class:


@State(
        name = "my-plugin",
        storages = @Storage(value = "my-settings.xml", roamingType = RoamingType.DEFAULT)
)
public class MySettings implements PersistentStateComponent<MySettings> {

    @Tag(value = "excludeBugsFiles")
    @MapAnnotation(
            surroundWithTag = false,
            surroundValueWithTag = false,
            surroundKeyWithTag = false,
            entryTagName = "bugs",
            keyAttributeName = "file",
            valueAttributeName = "enabled"
    )
    public Map<String, Boolean> excludeFiles = new HashMap<>();

}


Best Regards

Reto Merz