annotation right click add a menu entry and get the author string

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Alain Tavan

Created October 31, 2019 22:24

Hi all,

I wrote a plugin that allow me to get some specific information about some user.

I'm looking for a way to make it even better for users

Therefore I need to add a context menu to the annotate menu, ideally bellow the "show diff".

Unfortunately, I didn't find any information about how to proceed.

Can someone help me ?

How can I also get the subversion author (for ex xesi)

Thanks in advance for your help.

6 comments

Alain Tavan

Created October 31, 2019 23:04

of course i found that the corresponding source code is located within the AnnotateToggleAction

and I also know that actions are normally registered that way

<action class="aClassFile" text="The desired display text" icon="The desired Icon">
    <add-to-group group-id="SOME_GROUP_ID" anchor="before or after" relative-to-action="some other action id" />
</action>

but i'm missing something as I don't find the group id or the other action id :/

Aleksey Pivovarov

Created November 01, 2019 14:09

You can take a look at https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/plugins/git4idea/src/git4idea/actions/GitShowCommitInLogAnnotationGutterActionProvider.java or https://github.com/iasemenov/git-extensions plugin.

Unlike other places, this menu uses an extension point for custom actions (AnnotationGutterActionProvider).
You can get author name from passed FileAnnotation via 'getAuthorsMappingProvider' and 'getLineRevisionNumber'.
See also 'UpToDateLineNumberListener' interface, that is used to pass annotated line, that was clicked on, to the AnAction.