Managing Project Structure in Custom IDEs

IntelliJ Platform
1

Hi, what’s the best way to get support for the old Project Structure API, the new Workspace Model, and their interoperability working in a custom bare-bones IDE?

Currently I have the following dependencies:

The CustomPlugin.iml file contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
    <exclude-output />
...
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.dev.noJava.plugin.main" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.bootstrap" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.collaborationTools" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.externalSystem" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.externalSystem.impl" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.ide.newUiOnboarding" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.kernel" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.kernel.backend" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.lvcs" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.lvcs.impl" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.main" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.monolith.main" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.project" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.project.backend" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.resources" scope="RUNTIME" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.starter" />
    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="intellij.platform.tips" scope="RUNTIME"/>
...
  </component>
</module>

The CustomPlugin.xml file contains:

<idea-plugin xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">

  <xi:include href="/META-INF/PlatformLangXmlPlugin.xml"/>
  <xi:include href="/META-INF/common-ide-modules.xml"/>

  <content>
    <module name="intellij.platform.tips"/>
  </content>
</idea-plugin>

However, I dearly miss the Project Structure dialog from IntelliJ IDEA. Is there a way to pull it in, without including the entire Java plugin?

Or is the only sensible way to rely on external build system plugins to manage IntelliJ-Platform’s internal project structure model?

2

Is only tested and supported there unfortunately, you need IntelliJ IDEA workspace model and you will need to build basically on top of full IntelliJ IDEA to have it. It is not supported without Java as far as I understand. At least we do not promise that it works anywhere else