Cold Fusion plugin for InteliJ IDEA

2.54 it out!

2010-09-13T05:23:00.000-07:00

Bugs fixes on live templates. Previously there were no opportunity to delete either of standard live templates, they reappeared after restart. This problem is fixed in this build. Thanks Dave Merrill for reporting this bug.

Plugin version 2.53

2010-07-27T08:51:00.000-07:00

In this version lots of bugs were fixed. Many thanks to Dave Merrill and Jamie Krug.

We now support new (ColdFusion 9) syntax for components and functions definition. All bugs reports are welcome. The feature is new, so it might be buggy.

For those functions, which we can resolve, parameter info is available. Click Ctrl + P when inside braces and a hint will emerge. Have a look at a screenshot:

Might be not all of you are aware of such a useful feature as Live Templates. Saying shortly, you may configure shortcut for predefined structure insertion. To set them go to Settings/IDE Settings/Live Templates/cfml.

For instance, you want quickly define a function with a tag. Then just add a live template and customize it as shown on the screenshot

To invoke it, type cff (the value of 'Abbreviation' field) and press Tab, cffunction tag with attributes will appear. By pressing Tab you may move through attributes' values and type your values, instead of defaults.

Believe me - it worth trying!

Tags foldind and functions' structure view in 2.50

2010-06-06T23:30:00.000-07:00

Now we have pretty java styled structure view for functions. With access, parameters and return type showing, with navigation to source code also.

It can be invoked through Ctrl+F12 hotkey from source code or opened as a side panel.

And now you can fold your tags (cfcomponent, cffunction, cfscript) (Ctrl + '+' & Ctrl + '-').

Enjoy!

More robust java and cfml completion in 2.49

2010-04-19T01:37:00.000-07:00

Now instead of stupid strings in completion dialog, where you can't even understand if it is a field or a function, we have beautiful iconized items with types and parameters shown!

That's how it looks like:

What about init method, which is cfml specific, it'll be inserted if you select appropriate constructor in completion popup. And here is an example again:

And as I finally managed to close CFML-44, java completion now differs between the class and the instance. That is to say, before init() your completion has static scope, and normal after.

And the last good piece of news, java refactoring (as function rename) works with coldfusion too (that is what this bug CFML-88 of Kevin was about).

Enjoy! And don't forget to send feedback!

MXUnit support

2010-03-19T04:43:00.000-07:00

Hello, everybody!

Great to inform you that now we are supporting testing via MXUnit, using local server! It is available in latest, 2.48 plugin version.

More info on MXUnit you may find on their official site: http://www.mxunit.org/

Creating MXUnit run configuration in IntellijIDEA is extremely easy.

Suppose, you want to test a single component, inherited from mxunit.framework.TestCase.

Add new MXUnit configuration and fill two fields:

- Web path (an URL, by which your coldfusion component is accessible),

- and File (a local path to your component, let say to your component's file)

And here you are!

You'll receive tests results in your test console. It'll show you what tests passed and what failed.

Moreover you'll have 'Jump to source' by F4 or double click option and navigating from stack trace.

Rework UI

2010-02-11T03:36:00.000-08:00

A new run configuration will open selected browser on selected page when run

MXUnit

2009-09-16T01:20:00.000-07:00

I started a research towards including MXUnit support into my plugin. So keep up with blog posts ;)

Java Loader Completion

2009-06-11T05:04:00.000-07:00

If you are using java loader (from http://javaloader.riaforge.org/) and want to have its completion and resolving in idea than this post is for you =)

Example of using:

paths = [];
paths[1] = '/home/user/webapps/app/lib/MyJar.jar';
loader = createObject('component','javaloader.JavaLoader').init(paths);
myJavaObject = loader.create('com.foo.Bar');

The main goal is to have completion in create method and to have completion on methods of created object (myJavaObject).

So you need to declare your java loader in comment in such way:

You may specify as many jar files, as you wish

Than you need to add all your jar files to class path. Go to ProjectStructure/JDKs/Classpath and add them.

And at last you need to add coldfusion facet to your module and specify the Web root directory. So all jar which are mentioned in comments will be prefixed with web root path.

Enjoy! =)

Java completion and resolve

2009-05-07T05:15:00.000-07:00

Create object

Completion and resolving on second argument is working if first argument if "java".

Java methods completion

Expressions types

Binary/unary/etc. expression types are calculated if operands are appropriate java classes or literal expressions. The result parameters are always java classes (in case of literal operands - boxed types).

If resolve crashes

Sometimes you may get wrong result of the resolve - for example in long complex expressions. Yet it not work for standard functions - except createObject.

Then you may specify variable type in comments for completion to work for its methods. The pattern is (if you are familiar with regular expressions)
>
Well... it is easier to give an example =) Here is it: 

And your completion would be working from this comment down to next such comment for this variable. Of course resolve works on "type" parameter.
Enjoy! =)

Preview

2009-04-16T04:50:00.001-07:00

If you have coldfusion local server installed on your machine you may in a few steps configure idea to put cfml pages to the web root directory and open browser on specefied page to view the result. (As it is the first version, I suppose it will be modified a lot).

Here they are:

1 Step: Add ColdFusion Facet

2 Step: Specify ColdFusion web root directory on your file system

By default on windows it is C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot

3 Step: Specify relative folder

You may use nested directories. If it does not exists it will be created under web root and all files under project will be copied there on compilation stage.

4 Step: Manage run configurations

Add ColdFusion Run Configuration

5 Step: Specify any page from your project as a start one

You may change server URL also (by default it is localhost:8500)

And you are done!

Attributes completion

2009-03-05T05:02:00.000-08:00

If attribute has some predefined values, you'll have them in completion list.
For example cfqueryparam has cfsqltype which is always one of a set of possible values.

Working with variables

2009-03-05T04:41:00.000-08:00

All functionality, which helps you to work with functions now available for variables inside the file. Auto completion, go to definition, usage highlighting

Go to definition on Ctrl+B

Usage highlighting Ctrl + Shift + F7

Auto completion Ctrl + Space

Live templates

2009-02-20T07:10:00.000-08:00

Live template invoked after typing appropriate char sequence and pressing Tab button. They are used for faster writing mostly typical code fragments. For example if you type cfo and press Tab, then you'll have such code instead of cfo: <cfoutput>component</cfoutput>. Your cursor will be staying at the begining of component word. Typing anything will replace the word. Press enter and cursor will jump at the end of the construction.

You may see available templates in Settings/Live templates/cfml

Improving structure view

2009-02-20T05:19:00.000-08:00

New feature will be available with a new version. Under the root of structure view there are two subtrees. One of them presents the cfml structure of the file and another - html. I suppose it should be useful.

Version 1.20

2009-02-19T05:09:00.001-08:00

Structure view

Structure view on Alt + 7 for cfml file is shown. Functions definitions have special icons.

Version 1.19

2009-02-17T06:29:00.000-08:00

For using all new features you need to create java module and put all your cfml files under source root. Functions resolving works within the file.

User defined functions completion on Alt + Enter (yet works only withing current file!)

Go to declaration on Ctrl + MouseClick

Usage search on Ctrl + Shift + F7

Errors and warnings are shown on function already defined and function name can't be resolved

Function rename

Version 1.14 HTML highlighting

2009-01-20T04:20:00.000-08:00

Quick navigation through HTML tags

Provide quick navigation to parent tags when clicking on the bread crumb with its name in the top of the editor

Code completion

On 'Ctrl + Space' completion of HTML tags attributes, some attributes values.

Quick documentation

On Ctrl + Q or Shift + F1 for tags, attributes, etc.

HTML code formatting

Code formatting according to HTML-specific Code Style (defined via a dedicated Code Style settings panel).

Structure view

The convenient structure view, fully synchronized with the editor, allows you to analyze the structure of HTML part of the file and quickly navigate to the desired place in code.

Code inspections

Go to declaration

The Go to declaration feature (Ctrl + B) works even for references to images (opens the image in editor tab, via bundled plugin).

Show Applied Styles for Tag

This command, available from the context menu when called on a tag, opens a tree-view of all styles that are applied to the tag by CSS, so that you can immediately see all defined style attributes, with possible overridings.

CSS

For CSS code highlighting, completion, quick documentation and some more extra features provided too.

Varsion 1.10

2008-12-18T04:14:00.000-08:00

Expressions syntax errors highlighting

SQL highlighting

Version 1.8

2008-12-01T08:39:00.000-08:00

Cfscript lexer highlighting

Expressions in sharps highlighting

Nested sharps support. Highlighting of matched sharps.

Version 1.6

2008-11-20T00:14:00.000-08:00

Closing tag autoinsertion

If there is no closing tag specified for the current one, it will be inserted after typing '>'.

Completion

For tags and attributes completion dialog opens on Ctrl+Space.

Additional languages highlighting

JSP, CSS and Java Script are highlighted in .cfml files.

Unmatched tags

Errors on unmatched tags highlighting was changed a bit, I hope it works better now and much more common to highlighting in html files.

Features ready for today

2008-11-10T01:07:00.000-08:00

Lexer highlighting

Lexical units as tags, attribute's names, comments, strings, numbders are highlighted.

You can tune colors in Settings/Editor/Colors & Fonts/CFML.

Brace matching

Paired braces are highlighted.

Angle brackets are structural and a line on the left bar indicates which lines are matched. Tags balance is counted and brackets are matched if belongs to similar tags.

Unmatched tags

Unmatched tags highlighted with a error lines.

Quick documentation

Documentation is provided for tags and attributes on Ctrl+q hot key.

All of this you can find here http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=3571