[Qt-creator] Java support?

[Jason H]

> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 3:41 AM
> From: "Eike Ziller" <Eike.Ziller at qt.io>
> To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> Cc: "qt-creator" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Java support?
>
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> > On Sep 10, 2020, at 20:21, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm working in an Android/iOS app and while creator is just fine for iOS/Objective-C, QtCreator is not fine at all for Android/Java.
> > 
> > I'm wondering how close QtCreator is to being able to:
> > * present the java files and classes in the Project explorer (gradle integration?)
> 
> I don’t see gradle integration coming. When we’d finished it, Google would probably switch to something else :P

I guess they already have in the sense that Kotlin is now an Android language. :-( But it seems that Gradle is here to stay.

> But you should be able to use a Generic Project for that: File > New > Import Project > Import Existing Project. (For the language server you should probably import the module base directory?)
> That could probably be made more obvious… like not putting it at the end of a category with lots of version control related items, and calling it something like Import Directory or such (there doesn’t need to be a “project” of any kind).
> 
> > * parse and edit Java code
> > 
> > I'm thinking the language server would do a lot of the heavy lifting?
> 
> The java-language-server would/should solve the “parse and edit” part.
> I have not tried it, but probably setting it up as “Start Server per Project” is required, and probably having the module path as the base of the Qt Creator project.
> Also, Qt Creator still has a specialized Java editor from the pre-LSP times, which might interfere with the language client, so switching the handler for text/x-java to “Plain Text Editor” in Preferences > Environment > MIME Types might be needed to.
> 
> I agree that someone should check this, potentially throwing the old Java editor away, and maybe Qt Creator can help a bit with setting up the Java language server too, similar to what we do for Python.

+1