javaintellij-ideaintellij-plugin

Create a background task in IntelliJ plugin


I'm developing an IntelliJ-idea plugin and want to run code in background task (visible in the background tasks dialog and in another thread than the UI).

I found the following Helper class and tried it by passing a Runnable object and implement its run method but it still blocking the UI and when I tried to do the threading myself i got the following error

 Read access is allowed from event dispatch thread or inside read-action only (see com.intellij.openapi.application.Application.runReadAction())
     Details: Current thread: Thread[Thread-69 [WriteAccessToken],6,Idea Thread Group] 532224832
     Our dispatch thread:Thread[AWT-EventQueue-1 12.1.4#IU-129.713, eap:false,6,Idea Thread Group] 324031064
     SystemEventQueueThread: Thread[AWT-EventQueue-1 12.1.4#IU-129.713, eap:false,6,Idea Thread Group] 324031064

Solution

  • I have found a better way to run the process as background task where you can update the progress bar percentage and text

    ProgressManager.getInstance().run(new Task.Backgroundable(project, "Title"){
            public void run(@NotNull ProgressIndicator progressIndicator) {
    
                // start your process
    
                // Set the progress bar percentage and text
                progressIndicator.setFraction(0.10);
                progressIndicator.setText("90% to finish");
    
    
                // 50% done
                progressIndicator.setFraction(0.50);
                progressIndicator.setText("50% to finish");
    
    
                // Finished
                progressIndicator.setFraction(1.0);
                progressIndicator.setText("finished");
    
            }});
    

    If you need to read some data from another thread you should use

    AccessToken token = null;
    try {
       token = ApplicationManager.getApplication().acquireReadActionLock();
                        //do what you need
    } finally {
       token.finish();
    }