Edit your ivy files easily in eclipse with the
IvyDE
Plugin editor.
IvyDE
brings creation wizard, html preview and completion for Ivy xml tag, attributes but also for attributes' values!
Choose an organisation and browse thru its projects and revisions.
Content
Wizard
Editor
Wizard
IvyDE comes with a wizard that allows you to create an ivy.xml file for your project.
To open the wizard choose File->New->Other in the Eclipse menu (Ctrl+N by default)
The Ivy wizard is accessible in the category Other. Select it then click Next
The wizard contains only one page, and is very simple.
Wizard fields:
Container: you have to select the targeted project. (This is already set if you access the wizard thanks right click menu on your project root folder)
File name: the ivy file name. (ivy.xml by default and its better to keep it in most of case)
Organisation: the component owner name. (your company name or the company that provides the component if you are writing ivy.xml file for 3rd party jars). Note this value can be set in the
Ivy preference page
Module name: the component name.
Status: the status of the project. (integration by default since we have just created its ivy file :-). Please refer to
Ivy documentation for more details
)
When the form is correctly filled you can press Finish button. Eclipse will automatically open the Ivy
editor
.
Ivy Editor
The Ivy's eclipse editor provides xml syntax coloration, tag completion, tag's attribute names completion, and for dependency and configuration tag value completion.
Completion comes with contextual help. The completion popup is displayed when hitting simultaneously the CTRL and the SPACE keys.
Available completions:
Xml structure
: allows you quickly to insert the good tag at its right place. If the tag can have nested children both notations, simple tag and open tag, are proposed
Tag attributes
: when your cursor is placed in a tag bracket the completion show available attributes for the enclosing tag.
Attributes values
: when your cursor is placed in the quote of an attribute value the completion shows available values for the matching attribute.
Available value completion
info:
organisation (pref based), module (eclipse project name),
info/ivyauthor:
name (pref based), url (pref based)
info/description:
homepage (pref based)
info/license:
name
info/repository:
name (the other attributes depend on it), url, ivys, pattern, artifacts
configurations/conf:
visibility, deprecated, extends
publications/artifact:
type, conf, ext
dependencies/dependency:
org, name, rev are resolved thanks to Ivy using the ivyconf set in the
project Ivy preference page
. If not set to "default" Ivy uses its defaults resolvers configuration (ie ivyrep + ibiblio), and if not set Ivy uses the ivyconf set in the
Eclipse Ivy preference page
. conf values are computed from current ivy.xml file and the dependency ivy.xml file if any.