Hi, Is there is any active/initial work on making a Pants plugin for PyCharm/IntelliJ? If so, I'd like to help.

The discussion on https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/11151 suggests maybe no active effort at the moment

Thanks!

From what I've heard: • JetBrians plugins are notoriously challenging. The mypy folks a while back just straight up gave up • They do support a "Build Support Protocol" (mainly JVM languages) but were working on a Python one So if anything I'd probably focus on the Python BSP

Do you maybe have a link? (Googling "Pycharm python build support protocol" gave lots of junk...)

I looked at it like a year ago, and it was just a document t then. You might have more luck with "BSP"

Looks like something exists now. Will give it a look.

That's for Scala. There was a provisional one for Python

There is Pants support for IntelliJ for Scala/Java, using BSP. The open issue is extending that for Python. @witty-crayon-22786 has the details.

yea, the IntelliJ folks were expected to have added or announced BSP client support for Python in IntelliJ/PyCharm sometime in the last few weeks: i haven’t followed up to see whether that actually happened. there has been some communication in the BSP discord Pants already supports acting as a BSP server for Java/Scala, so when the client is there, adding support for acting as a BSP server for Python should be all that is necessary…?

I am willing to be available to guide any one who wants to extend the BSP support to Python.

Could you point me to an example that I could learn from most of it and then I'll ask for more specific pointers?

depends on where you want to start. you can look at the existing BSP code in the repo (just search

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