The new IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 EAP is here! Among other improvements and bug-fixes, it updates the Kotlin plugin to version 1.2.30.
The updated Kotlin plugin has some new intention actions. Now, in the Project Tool Window you can paste a code fragment directly into a package, and the IDE will create a new Kotlin file with the pasted code.
It also offers new intentions that convert the scoping function calls let and run into each other, as well as also into apply and vice versa.
In addition, data flow analysis now works for mixed Kotlin and Java codebases.
There are also new warnings of possible conflicts introduced by the Rename refactoring.
You can find more information about Kotlin 1.2.30 here. The full list of changes for this build is available in Release Notes.
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Happy developing!
The fact that such a basic operation that has been available in the Java editor for such a long time highlights how much of a pain it is to work with Kotlin.
So many things that work in Java don’t in Kotlin and it is not a Pleasure to Develop!
e.g.
Alt-Enter to implement an interface from a library tries (and fails) to implement it in the library instead of my source!
Pasting a class reference doesn’t auto-import puts the fully qualified class name
That FQN is often not recognised
Moving classes to different packages doesn’t update other references
Other refactoring (that I can’t remember the details of!) fails to complete properly
This feels like when the Gradle plugin was announced 7 years ago and it still doesn’t have the same functionality as the Maven plugin.
I had problems with my Kotlin projects upon updating IDEA to 2018.1. On 2017.3 I had Kotlin’s plugin version at 1.2.31. When I updated, this version was no longer available and I lost association with all my .kt files as well as being unable to build any gradle project.
The catch here, unfortunately, is to downgrade Kotlin’s version to 1.2.30 in build.gradle.
Any idea when Kotlin’s plugin 1.2.31 is going to be available on IDEA 2018.1?
Hi Thales, we’ve just published the IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.1 EAP build with the Kotlin v1.2.31: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IDEA+2018.1+EAP
The problem you are encounter is a known issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-188964
We are working on it, sorry for the trouble.