IntelliJ Plugin expansion - search my snippets from IDE

Use case

I thought it would be practical to be able to search for search snippets directly from IntelliJ, without having to go to the browser, something like in the following demo:

The implementation is fairly easy, so let's see how it's done.

Implementation

All the action happens in the SearchonCodeverDialog class which extends AnAction¹ and overrides its actionPerformed method:

public class SearchOnCodeverDialog extends AnAction {

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(@NotNull AnActionEvent event) {
        Project project = event.getData(PlatformDataKeys.PROJECT);

        final Editor editor = event.getRequiredData(CommonDataKeys.EDITOR);
        final String selectedText = editor.getSelectionModel().getSelectedText();

        String queryTxt;
        if (selectedText != null) {
            queryTxt = Messages.showInputDialog("Input query to search in My Snippets", "Codever Search", Messages.getQuestionIcon(), selectedText, null);
        } else {
            queryTxt = Messages.showInputDialog(project, "Input query to search in My Snippets", "Codever Search", Messages.getQuestionIcon());
        }
        String url = "https://www.codever.land/search?sd=my-snippets&q=" + queryTxt;
        if (queryTxt != null) {
            BrowserUtil.browse(url);
        }

    }
}

The user is asked for input via the method Messages.showInputDialog where any selectedText, if existing, is passed. The result, queryTxt, contains the user input.

Of course, you need to define this action in plugin.xml file, which I did both for the Editor Menu, and the Console Menu:

    <actions>
        .....
        <action
                id="Codever.Search.Editor"
                class="codever.intellij.plugin.SearchOnCodeverDialog"
                text="Search on Codever"
                description="Launches dialog to input query search on Codever"
                icon="SaveToCodeverPluginIcons.CODEVER_ACTION_ICON">
            <add-to-group group-id="EditorPopupMenu" anchor="last"/>
        </action>
        <action
                id="Codever.Search.Console"
                class="codever.intellij.plugin.SearchOnCodeverDialog"
                text="Search on Codever"
                description="Launches dialog to input query search on Codever"
                icon="SaveToCodeverPluginIcons.CODEVER_ACTION_ICON">
            <add-to-group group-id="ConsoleEditorPopupMenu" anchor="last"/>
        </action>
    </actions>

So simple and straight forward.

The plugin is available to download and install in
JetBrain Plugins Repository and the source code is available on Github

If you want to learn also how to get the selected text, get file info and debug an IntelliJ see my previous post related to IntelliJ Plugins:

Simple IntelliJ plugin example to help me bookmark code

Adrian Matei for Codever ・ Jun 15 '20 ・ 9 min read

#productivity #programming #beginners #opensource

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1. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/basic-action-system.html ↩