dynamic plugin requirements

[nixel2007]

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Idea platform 2020.1 will introduce "dynamic plugin" feature - ability to install/upgrade plugins without restart of IDEA.

We should check, if lsp4intellij passes all this requirements.

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[nixel2007]

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http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/plugin_structure/dynamic_plugins.html

[NipunaRanasinghe]

@nixel2007 Sorry about the late reply and thank you so much for bringing this up!

I'll work on this and verify once we have the 2020.1 or its EAP available.

[Trias]

anyone doing any work on this?

I looked into this a bit and it seems very much doable, but we need to change our ApplicationComponent IntellijLanguageClient to an ApplicationService, meaning all library-users must adapt.

Users must declare listeners in their plugin.xml. We may provide an example plugin.xml, which can be easily copied. Other than that i dont see any problems.

[nixel2007]

I think, before 1.0 all breaking changes are acceptable. notice in readme and changelog with migration steps should be enough. demo plugin already exists - https://github.com/NipunaRanasinghe/lsp4intellij-plugin PR with migration could be linked to migration guide also.