I hope I didn't give the wrong impression. I really appreciate the work you've done and looking at the code, it's a heck of a lot of work. If I hadn't tried wicketforge and saw the potential there I never would have been so motivated to start this process. I just didn't want to be that guy who just said "I want this" and "I want that" to someone who had already donated so much of their time. That's why I'm proposing the bounty. That way I can not feel like such a leech when I ask for specific things.
-Matt Nick Heudecker wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > I'm sorry the IDEA plugin doesn't meet your needs. I've wanted to > implement > several of the features you mention, but like everyone else my time is > severely limited. > > That said, WicketForge is open source. I'm happy to accept patches or > even > turn the project over to someone else. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Matt Welch <matt...@welchkin.net> wrote: > >> >> I use Intellij Idea for my Java development. In fact, that IDE is one of >> the >> main reasons I so often come back to using Java for many of my projects. >> I >> also use Wicket and am starting to work with it a lot more than I have in >> the past. While Wicket and Idea get along reasonably well, there's a lot >> of >> room for improvement in their relationship. That means a Wicket plugin >> for >> Idea. >> >> Nick Heudecker has done an admirable job with WicketForge >> (http://code.google.com/p/wicketforge/), however 1) when I try to use >> that >> plugin, I constantly get exceptions and 2) it doesn't do some of the the >> things I'm really interested in. This is no criticism of Nick. If I >> recall >> one of his messages correctly, he developed this plugin for his own use >> and >> it was extremely generous of him to publish the code as open source. He's >> even made pretty regular improvements to it, but at least for me >> personally, >> it doesn't meet my needs for a Wicket plugin. >> >> Now, I can't, in good conscience just pop on to this mailing list and ask >> someone out of the goodness of their heart to "get to it!", so I'm >> willing >> to start the ball rolling on an incentive in the form of a bounty; one >> that >> I hope other Wicket and Idea users will contribute to as well. First, >> though, I'd like to come to some kind of agreement about a feature set >> for >> such a plugin so that when I post the bounty I can be as specific as >> possible in its criteria. >> >> Here is a list of my most desired features in the order of priority: >> >> 1) Navigation between template and code - I would like the ability to >> move >> in both directions between a template and it's Java code. This means in >> an >> overall sense (e.g. moving back and forth between a top level page class >> and >> the HTML file) and in a more granular sense (e.g. moving back and forth >> between an HTML element with a wicket:id and the Wicket Java Component >> with >> the same id). I should be able to bind a keystroke to this action. It >> should >> preferably be the same keystroke in both directions. >> >> 2) Code completion for wicket:message keys - I would like code completion >> for the <wicket:message> "key" attribute. It should work something like >> the >> XML code completion when there isn't a DTD or schema available. It would >> be >> based on other keys already available on the page. So for instance if I >> had >> already created a <wicket:message> with a key of >> "userform.detailfieldset.username.label" I would expect that when I >> created >> another <wicket:message> and started typing "us" in the key attribute, >> code >> completion would allow me to expand what I typed similar to what happens >> when typing package names. >> >> 3) Properties file intention - I would like an Idea intention that would >> allow me to automatically add <wicket:message> keys to a resource >> properties >> file. By default this would add it to a properties file with the same >> name >> as the template (even creating the properties file if necessary), however >> it >> should be configurable to use an application-wide properties file if >> that's >> what the user prefers. When adding the key to the properties file it >> should >> be placed in a logical manner according to it's period separated name so >> the >> key "userform.detailfieldset.username.label" would be placed just after >> other keys with the name "userform.detailfieldset.username" or >> "userform.detailfieldset.username". The intention should leave the cursor >> after the "=" in the properties file. >> >> 4) Code completion on wicket tags and attributes - I would like code >> completion for all wicket tags (e.g. <wicket:extend>, <wicket:message>, >> etc.) in HTML templates. This is something of a lower priority as Idea's >> "Live Template" functionality takes much of the pain out of not having >> code >> completion for items in the wicket namespace. This doesn't help with the >> error/warning issue, though. >> >> 5) Validation for wicket namespace and attributes in hTML template - In a >> similar vein, I would like wicket attributes like "wicket:id" and wicket >> tags like <wicket:message> to not show up as either errors or warnings in >> my >> HTML templates. >> >> This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more and perhaps >> even some that should be higher on the priority list. Once some kind of >> feature set is agreed by Idea users here in the mailing list, I'll kick >> off >> the bounty on one of the software bounty sites and contribute $200. I >> know >> it's not much but I'll try to get my company to pony up a few dollars as >> well. That along with whatever contributions anyone else would like to >> make >> will hopefully be an incentive for someone. Maybe there's someone out >> there >> who's been wanting to do this for a while and the bounty will simply be >> the >> motivation to finally do it. I don't know, but I don't figure there's any >> harm in trying. >> >> Please post your own ideas and list your preferred priority for the >> features. >> >> -Matt >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Intellij-Idea-Plugin-Bounty-tp21958284p21958284.html >> Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Intellij-Idea-Plugin-Bounty-tp21958284p21965084.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
