Development

The Eclipse tooling is based on the Dart analysis server and LSP4E.

See the Dart analysis server README for the current status of the server.

Setting up

Due to the project being an Eclipse plugin, it is recommended to use the Eclipse IDE to develop the plugin.

The following steps should get you all set up for development. If you encounter any problems on the way, feel free to ask on the dartboard-dev mailing list or open an issue.

It is recommended to use at least Eclipse version 2019-06.

Get Started

• Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:eclipse/dartboard.git

• Change to the cloned directory dartboard and run mvn clean verify

• Add the local update site from org.eclipse.dartboard.update/target/repository/ via the Help→ Install New Software…​ menu entry in the Eclipse IDE

• Install the listed plugin

• Create or import a .dart file and start editing it

Note	If you have troubles with compilation and/or running try to install the necessary dependencies as described below.

Installing the dependencies

For the plugin to work as expected you need to install some dependencies.

Add the update site of the LSP4E project: http://download.eclipse.org/lsp4e/releases/latest/.

Install the plugins:

• Language Server Protocol client for Eclipse IDE (Incubation) Source

• Language Server Protocol client for Eclipse IDE (Incubation)

Add the update site of the TM4E project: http://download.eclipse.org/tm4e/snapshots/.

Install the plugins:

• TextMate Core

• TextMate Core Developer Resources

For logging we use the logback library. You can install these from the Install new software…​ dialog:

• m2e - slf4j over logback logging (Optional)