Build IDE integration for IntelliJ

[tsandall]

It would be nice to have an IntelliJ plugin that adds OPA syntax highlighting, syntax checking, testing, tracing, and evaluation features like we have for VS Code.

I haven't looked into the development effort required for creating IntelliJ plugins. Over time it would be great to have feature parity with the VS Code plugin.

[tsandall]

This feature has been proposed as part of GSoC 2019. https://github.com/cncf/soc#open-policy-agent-opa

[tsandall]

@vgramer is looking into this.

[tsandall]

@vgramer do you have any updates on this? We're going to submit it to GSOC 2020 but if you have made a bunch of progress we can always pull it.

[vgramer]

Hi nothing really tangible. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to work on it during holiday and I have a bit forgotten what I have done :s

Anyway so far, I have implemented a subset of the rego grammar (a subset was easier to debug) and some functionally like highlighting or commenting . But i am still struggling with intelliJ api to know how to execute an action (opa fmt, opa eval ... ) and renderer the result.

I hope to have more time in the next week to work on it . However i think it's a good idea to submit to GSOC 2020, there are a lots of work to do ;)

[sresthas]

Hey, If nobody has been working on this, can this be proposed for CommunityBridge?
I would be happy to work on this

[vgramer]

@twisted-sres Yeah sure.
Please ping me on opa slack so we can start taking about that.

Slack id vgramer

[ashutosh-narkar]

@vgramer if you would like to propose the project for CommunityBridge, you would need to add it here with a description similar to this.

The deadline is May 1st 2020.

[UkonnRa]

Hi, any update? This is a nice idea

[vgramer]

Hi @UkonnRa
A first version of the plugin is available here: https://github.com/vgramer/opa-idea-plugin. The installation of the plugin requires some manual configuration for the moment (add a custom repository). It should be available in the stable repository (no manual configuration) by the next week.

[tsandall]

I'm going to close this issue now since the plugin exists over at https://github.com/vgramer/opa-idea-plugin. We can file bug/enhancement issues in that repo going forward.