Hi Ingo, Thanks a lot for starting up this discussion. I have not tried IntelliJ and I’m using PyCharm for PyFlink development. Have you tried this guideline? [1] It’s written in 1.9 and I think it should still work.
Regards, Dian [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/flinkdev/ide_setup/#pycharm On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 5:38 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for starting this discussion Ingo. I guess that Dian can probably > answer this question. I am big +1 for updating our documentation for how to > set up the IDE since this problem will probably be encountered a couple of > times. > > Cheers, > Till > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:03 AM Ingo Bürk <i...@ververica.com> wrote: > > > Hello @dev, > > > > like probably most of you, I am using IntelliJ to work on Flink. Lately I > > needed to also work with flink-python, and thus was wondering about how > to > > properly set it up to work in IntelliJ. So far, I have done the > following: > > > > 1. Install the Python plugin > > 2. Set up a custom Python SDK using a virtualenv > > 3. Configure the flink-python module to use this Python SDK (rather than > a > > Java SDK) > > 4. Install as many of the Python dependencies as possible when IntelliJ > > prompted me to do so > > > > This got me into a mostly working state, for example I can run tests from > > the IDE, at least the ones I tried so far. However, there are two > concerns: > > > > a) Step (3) will be undone on every Maven import since Maven sets the SDK > > for the module > > b) Step (4) installed most, but a couple of Python dependencies could not > > be installed, though so far that didn't cause noticeable problems > > > > I'm wondering if there are additional / different steps to do, > specifically > > for (a), and maybe how the PyFlink developers are configuring this in > their > > IDE. The IDE setup guide didn't seem to contain information about that > > (only about separately setting up this module in PyCharm). Ideally, we > > could even update the IDE setup guide. > > > > > > Best > > Ingo > > >
