Re: [Engine-devel] Eclipse IDE setup

Hi, I went through setting Eclipse IDE for engine development recently. After getting the maven build to work, and after importing all projects into eclipse, following setup is required to get rid of all compilation errors reported by eclipse: 1) at restapi-definition -> project -> properties -> java build path -> source -> add source folder -> target/generated sources/xjc 2) at webadmin -> project -> properties -> java build path -> source -> add source folder-> target/generated sources/annotations,gwt,test-annotations 3) To get rid of the error "The method setCharacterEncoding(String) is undefined for the type HttpServletResponse" in source frontend/webadmin/modules/frontend/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/ui/frontend/server/gwt/WebadminDynamicHostingServlet.java, I modified pom.xml at root level to change servlet API version from 2.3 to 2.4 as the concerned API is introduced in 2.4 <javax.ejb.api.version>3.0</javax.ejb.api.version> -<javax.servlet.api.version>2.3</javax.servlet.api.version> +<javax.servlet.api.version>2.4</javax.servlet.api.version> <jcraft.jsch.version>0.1.42</jcraft.jsch.version> 4) Make sure that you import the engine code formatter into eclipse _before_ starting development. Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Import -> <ovirt-src-root>/config/engine-code-format.xml 5) Above mentioned formatted doesn't work in comments. This can be resolved by adding "Remove trailing whitespace" in "Save actions" as follows: Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Save Actions -> Additional Actions -> Configure -> Code Organizing -> Remove trailing whitespace -> All lines 6) For some reason, editing a properties file in eclipse results in a lot of "diff" in git, making it difficult to review the code change. So I'm resorting to editing properties file in a text editor outside eclipse for the time being. I suspect this may not happen on all machines.