IntelliJ Plugin
Enables hyperlink navigation from any matching string literal, comment, XML attribute value, or XML element text to a URL defined by the "Issue Navigation" rules in the VCS settings.
Out of the box IntelliJ lets you define Regular Expressions to turn plain-text entries in your check-in comments and branch names into hyperlinks. The most common use case is to link issues back to your issue tracker. For instance the pattern and mapping shown here
has turned the branch name ("DEVCCPERF-142") into a link to that case in a Jira installation.
This plugin applies those same rules to literal strings, comments, XML attributes and XML element text. Now code like
@TestCase("DEVCCPERF-142") or <foo>DEVCCPERF-142</foo> becomes hyperlinks, too.
Of course you can define link patterns to go anywhere you like: for instance you could link [Ww]ikipedia:(.*) to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=$1
Because the Regex's are matched against individual elements in the PSI parse tree, expressions like "DEVCCPERF" + "-142" can't be matched by a single pattern.
Also, it will only work with languages whose Strings Classes are explicitly listed in the file StringLiteralClassNames.properties.
Install it like a normal plugin, then restart. Define a few Regex mappings under File/Settings/Version Control/Issue Navigation. Now you should be able to CTRL-click on matching Strings.
Special thanks to Max Ishchenko, whose plugin idea-navigate-url-from-literal inspired and guided this one.
Thanks too to JetBrains for releasing the source to the wonderful IntelliJ Community Edition, and for creating Kotlin—my new favorite programming language.
This plugin is written in Kotlin. The source is available on GitHub under the Apache License.