Automatic project import for Eclipse

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a IDEasy user, I want eclipse git repository project imports to happen automatically in the background so that I do not get disturbed and everything is automated without the need for me to interact.

Hint: via repository configuration and by setting import=eclipse this feature can be triggered.

Actual behavior

The automated project import seems to launch Eclipse GUI and IDEasy waits for the process to terminate what requires me to close the GUI.
Also the actual import does not seem to do anything instead of opening the Eclipse GUI.

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. ide create mmm https://github.com/m-m-m/settings.git

Related/Dependent Issues

• Seems that PR #954: improve repository support #990 caused this or at least made it worse than before

Comments/Hints:

• Project import is now implemented in IDEasy in the same way it was done in devonfw-ide but it seems that something was done wrong in IDEasy or it was always fragile/buggy and needs rework.

Links into the code:

IDEasy/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/eclipse/Eclipse.java

Lines 136 to 147 in bbe3a82

	public void importRepository(Path repositoryPath) {
	if (!this.groovyInstalled) {
	Mvn maven = this.context.getCommandletManager().getCommandlet(Mvn.class);
	MvnArtifact groovyAnt = new MvnArtifact("org.codehaus.groovy", "groovy-ant", GROOVY_VERSION);
	maven.getOrDownloadArtifact(groovyAnt);
	this.groovyInstalled = true;
	}
	// -DdevonImportPath=\"${import_path}\" -DdevonImportWorkingSet=\"${importWorkingSets}\""
	runTool(ProcessMode.DEFAULT, null, ProcessErrorHandling.THROW_CLI, VMARGS,
	"-DrepositoryImportPath=\"" + repositoryPath + "\" -DrepositoryImportWorkingSet=\"" + "" + "\"", "-application", "org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner",
	"-buildfile", this.context.getIdeInstallationPath().resolve(IdeContext.FOLDER_INTERNAL).resolve("eclipse-import.xml").toString());
	}

See also https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/tree/main/cli/src/main/package/internal

Affected version:

• 2025.03.002-SNAPSHOT

See #1006

[hohwille]

Latest error I am getting with recent IDEasy for this feature:

Running command 'D:\projects\coderepo\software\mvn\bin\mvn.cmd' with arguments 'dependency:get' '-Dartifact=org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-ant:3.0.23:jar'
failed with exit code 1!

Rerunning the command

mvn dependency:get -Dartifact=org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-ant:3.0.23:jar

worked fine with BUILD SUCCESS.

[hohwille]

ATTENTION: Before starting any kind of implementation first start with a research / analysis of what is currently happening and what might go wrong.