sbt-idea & sub-projects

Question

If, say, your sbt project contained 50 sub projects. Is it possible to generate an intellij project where you specify a set of the sub projects comes from your repo and for the other set of sub projects are actually contained in the project file ?

i.e. i'm looking to work on only a small subset of sub projects at a time and I know I won't need to change / compile the the other sub projects.

Thanks

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '12 at 11:23

You can define the following layout in project/Build.scala where you combine projects you're working on in meta project:

object MyBuild extends Build {

  lazy val meta = Project(
    id = "meta",
    base = file(".")) aggregate(A,B) dependsOn(A,B)

  lazy val A = Project(id = "A",base = file("A"))) 

  lazy val B = Project(id = "B",base = file("B")))

  ... }

Then type project meta at sbt startup (if it is not meta already) and then gen-idea.

But every time you need to change projects set you're working on, you need to change meta definition and issue gen-idea.

That seems good, but notice that the projects not included in the workset must be specified as local jar dependencies. — Daniel C. Sobral, Feb 25 '12 at 13:23

sbt-idea & sub-projects

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