Configuration of path mapping

[ruipires]

When using the CLion plugin, it would be useful if we could configure a mapping to apply to file paths exchanged between the idea-sourcetrail plugin and sourcetrail itself (for the "Send Location" and "Show in IDE" commands).

My particular use case is:

• Run sourcetrail on windows (for code inspection). I could run sourcetrail remotely as well, but its performance is terrible over X11.
• Run CLion inside WSL, using X11 forwarding, synchronizing files to a remote buildserver that can handle the building/indexing of the project a lot better than my local PC.
• Run sourcetrail in another remote buildserver, to update the srctrldb file, which I copy over to windows via scp.

The checkout path in WSL and in the buildserver differs only in the initial part of the path.
If a mapping is possible to configure in the plugin, this would all work out perfectly.

[mlangkabel]

At first thought, implementing a generic solution for your issue wouldn't be as easy as it sounds, because Sourcetrail projects can contain source files from different root directories. Simple example: Your source code and your compiler headers or the c++ standard library.

For your usecase it may be enough if you would open the .srctrldb file with an SQLite Browser and write a simple query that iterates the "file" table and searches and replaces a certain prefix in the "path" column to let Sourcetrail send the "correct" path to the IDE.

[ruipires]

Thanks for the workaround, that might be enough for my needs.

I understand the dificulty in implementing this generically.

I had tried simply using symlinks, but sourcetrail seems to prefer using the canonical path, which no matter what combination I tried, would cause the mapping to fail either on sourcetrail or in clion.