[CASSANDRA-16697] generate-idea-files taks unnecessarily builds the project

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.25, 3.11.11, 4.0.1, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Build
• Labels: IDE
• Change Category: Code Clarity
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/d54eff3a4a59c13b405624e5142aee37ef5f0cc6

Test and Documentation Plan

Try generate project in intellij + compile it + run some tests
For branches with modified test code - run unit tests

• Assignee: Jacek Lewandowski
• Reporter: Jacek Lewandowski

Authors

Jacek Lewandowski

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 26/May/21 05:36
• Updated: 27/May/22 19:25
• Resolved: 17/Jun/21 10:15

Description

This is especially painful when the project cannot be built because we are in the middle of solving some merge conflicts, but we want to fetch and update dependencies. It seems be to be unnecessary to build the project or to do other checks when we just want to load the project into our IDE.

From what I've tested, it is enough to limit dependencies of that task to:
init,maven-ant-tasks-init,resolver-dist-lib,gen-cql3-grammar,generate-jflex-java,createVersionPropFile

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-9123 Add generate-idea-files target to build.xml