[CASSANDRA-18668] Generate / add Gradle project to be imported by IDE instead of generating IDE specific project files

• Type: Task
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Build
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jacek Lewandowski
• Created: 14/Jul/23 05:23
• Updated: 14/Jul/23 05:23

Description

Many IDEs (including IntelliJ) support importing a project from the Gradle script. Having such a definition, we would not have to generate IDE project files after changing a branch or setting up a new work tree.

It is handy for working on the Cassandra project in IntelliJ because it allows running tests with multiple flavors - that is, currently, when we run a test, the default configuration is used. However, in real life, we use a different configuration for regular unit tests, compression, CDC, oa, etc. I found no way to configure that directly in IntelliJ, but when you use a Gradle project, it is possible to configure multiple test tasks and select which one you want to run - see the attached screenshot.