How to debug dbeaver with idea

[taohaozhi1129]

How to debug dbeaver with idea, I saw the official website documentation is not rich, can you have more detailed documentation
Thanks

[n5a5]

Hi, @taohaozhi1129. I see that a couple of important repos are missing in your workspace. Please follow this guide to configure IntelliJ IDEA's workspace: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Develop-in-IDEA.

[taohaozhi1129]

@n5a5 Hello, I follow the document, I finished step 6 directory structure is like this, The following steps do not understand the specific how to do, can you help me specifically how to do? What commands or scripts should I execute, please

Hi, @taohaozhi1129. I see that a couple of important repos are missing in your workspace. Please follow this guide to configure IntelliJ IDEA's workspace: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Develop-in-IDEA.

[n5a5]

7. Execute dbeaver/generate_workspace.cmd
8. The script above will create the dbeaver-workspace/dbeaver-ce folder. Open it as an IntelliJ IDEA project.
9. Follow step 9 as in https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Develop-in-IDEA#opening-dbeaver-in-idea
10. mvn clean compile -T 1C -f dbeaver/product/aggregate
11. Compile the workspace

[taohaozhi1129]

@n5a5 At present, dbeaver can be started and debugged normally in idea, thank you very much for your help。
I have another question. For instance, if I want to develop a database connection plugin, what development standards should I follow? Are there any references for this? Additionally, how do I package it after development is completed?
I noticed that drivers are usually downloaded online. If I have some special driver packages, can I package them directly so that they are available for use when creating a new connection, without needing to download them again?

[Learng1405]

Hi, after completing all steps till 10, how do i run the program in intelliJ, as it is asking main class to run the application, i am unable to find main class.

[n5a5]

Hi. mvn clean install for this plugin should help

[Learng1405]

@n5a5 =,
done that step, but how to start application using IntelliJIDea or by some binary file.
give steps
when i am trying to do by IntelliJIdea it is asking about the main class to run the application, what is the main class

[Destrolaric]

Hi we will convert it to discussion for now, there are a lot of things what might differ between each driver implementation. Documentation unfortunately will not help with that.

[n5a5]

@taohaozhi1129 This document might interest you: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Contribute-your-code. When it comes to adding support for other databases, I suggest using previous pull requests as a reference. You can find them by looking at associated tickets on our issue tracker with the new driver label: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22new+driver%22+is%3Aclosed.

Unfortunately, we won't accept a pull request with an implementation that directly packages the driver library. If we packaged DBeaver with each driver, its installation size would grow enormously.

[taohaozhi1129]

@n5a5 Hello, I successfully compiled and built it from source, but I encountered an issue. The startup requires Java environment support, but during the build process, the Java environment is not included.

[n5a5]

This is expected. I can think of 3 solutions:

1. Make Java 17 the default Java on your system
2. Download and unpack JRE 17 right into this directory
3. My favorite: provide the path to Java 17 in dbeaver.ini using the -vm flag before the -vmargs:

...
-vm
/path/to/jvm/17/on/your/machine
-vmargs
...

[taohaozhi1129]

Thank you, the method above was useful

[taohaozhi1129]

@n5a5 I noticed that each time a new database connection is created, the required driver can only be downloaded from the internet. For example, when developing new connectors, I have some self-developed driver packages that aren’t available online yet. Is it possible to embed these drivers during packaging?

[n5a5]

It is possible, but as I mentioned previously, we won't merge a feature request with a code that embeds a database driver.