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Lewis_Beard
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2 years ago

Groovy IDE recommendations for DataSource/ConfigSource development?

As I develop more and more ConfigSource and DataSource items in our portal, I find that I’m pretty hampered at times by the limited window space. Maybe its been silly of me all along to be developing...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    I think the developers at LM have a preferred IDE (IntelliJ), but it never made sense for me not coming from a Java background. I use VS Code combined with the collector debug window. I run an interactive Groovy console through docker `docker run --rm -it groovy` which lets me test syntax and stuff. I would really love it if LM made an extension for VS Code that would let you run groovy or powershell scripts on a chosen collector against a chosen object. That would really speed up my development. As it is, I develop my code in VS Code, then copy and paste into a !groovy or !posh dialog in the collector debug. I have to choose the device every time. It’s not great, but it works. I may go to bard/chatgpt to have it help me develop the VS Code extension since all that stuff can be done through the API.

    There’s also coretools floating around somewhere that allow you to run .groovy files from your command line. It uses your browser’s cookies for authentication and uses the API to push !groovy tasks through the collector debug console.

    I really wish LM did more for developers.

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JJumpp
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2 years ago

This does sounds like a great feature request! 
It would be awesome to dev within an IDE without having to copy and paste between windows.  
I also use VS Code since it helps me catch all my syntax errors and such, and then move it into the collector debug from there.  I always do a final bit of testing directly in the LogicModule too, in case my output is not in quite the right format. 

I think the developers at LM have a preferred IDE (IntelliJ), but it never made sense for me not coming from a Java background. I use VS Code combined with the collector debug window. I run an interactive Groovy console through docker `docker run --rm -it groovy` which lets me test syntax and stuff. I would really love it if LM made an extension for VS Code that would let you run groovy or powershell scripts on a chosen collector against a chosen object. That would really speed up my development. As it is, I develop my code in VS Code, then copy and paste into a !groovy or !posh dialog in the collector debug. I have to choose the device every time. It’s not great, but it works. I may go to bard/chatgpt to have it help me develop the VS Code extension since all that stuff can be done through the API.

There’s also coretools floating around somewhere that allow you to run .groovy files from your command line. It uses your browser’s cookies for authentication and uses the API to push !groovy tasks through the collector debug console.

I really wish LM did more for developers.