Start here if you are setting up a brand new development environment, or want to reconfigure your environment from scratch.

Requirements:

The instructions below assume you already have available:

• A recent version of IntelliJ. These steps have been validated on IntelliJ 2020.2.2

• JDK 1.8 installed and configured in IntelliJ

• A local git clone of the apache/beam repository in your home directory ("~/beam")

• ChromeDriver installed and running (chromedriver --port=4444)
• Flutter installed
• The script local-env-setup.sh (Located at the root of the project)ran before importing the project

To set up your IntelliJ project:

• Launch the New Project wizard by closing your project File | Close Project.
• Then click Open from the splash page to open a new project (Depending on what version of IntelliJ you may need to find an option to "Import project" instead)
• 
• Select the settings.gradle.kts in the root of your beam git repo
• 

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Set Names count to use static import with '*'; to 999

Issues when building:

When building the project with IntelliJ, you may encounter some issues, here is the fix for each issue:

Flutter finished with non-zero exit value 1

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When you get this issue, you should make sure that ChromeDriver is installed and running with the command chromedriver --port=4444 and duplicate or rename the file config.example.dart to config.g.dart in the folder playground/frontend/lib.

If you want to see exactly what cause the issue, you can ran just the task that failed. For this example, you could ran the task as the following:  ./gradlew integrationTest_standalone_change_example_sdk_run and see the error message.

If you got as an error message the following, then you should only rename the file config.example.dart to config.g.dart

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If you got this error message, then you should run ChromeDriver with the following command chromedriver --port=4444

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