Buf Support for IntelliJ Platform

This plugin extends Protocol Buffer support in the IDE by integrating with Buf.

Buf CLI provides advanced linting and detection of potentially breaking changes in your Proto messages and services. Integration with Buf Schema Registry helps manage, discover and share API definitions.

Development Guide

Please submit bug reports and feature requests via GitHub Issues and don't hesitate to contribute via PRs.

Running tests

Once you have Buf CLI installed locally just run ./gradlew test in your terminal or open the project in IntelliJ and use Run Tests run configuration.

Running the plugin

In order to run the plugin from sources either run ./gradlew runIde in your terminal or open the project in IntelliJ and use Run Plugin run configuration.

Distributing the plugin

To build a local distribution of the plugin which can be shared run ./gradlew buildPlugin from your terminal and use build/distributions/intellij-buf-*.zip for sharing and installing from disk.

Publishing the plugin

Process of publishing the plugin to JetBrains Marketplace is automated via GitHub Releases:

• Update pluginVersion in gradle.properties.
• Add a new entry to CHANGELOG.md for the new version.
• Create a GitHub Release which will automatically submit the plugin for a review.
• After the review, which can take a day or two, the plugin will be available on JetBrains Marketplace.