Editing
- Syntax highlighting
- Error highlighting
- Unresolved classes marked as errors
- Unresolved unqualified properties marked as warnings
- Incompatible types assignments marked as warnings
- Inapplicable method calls marked as warnings
- Code folding
- Code formatter
- Comments and "To Do" view support
- "add missing import" intention
Execution, Debugging & Compilation
- Debugging support (setting breakpoints, view stack)
- GDK configuration
- Grails configuration
- Run configuration for Groovy scripts
- Make or rebuild java+groovy project entire (Compilation .groovy files to java bytecode)
Code Completion
- context sensitive keyword completion
- Completion of methods, fields, classes
- Completion makes use of type inference
- Default methods completed
- Swing builder methods are completed, swing properties are completed in method argument list
- Resolve
- Resolve groovy to groovy classes, methods, fields
- Resolve groovy to java classes, methods, fields
- Resolve java to groovy classes, methods, fields
Surround with (Alt+Ctrl+T)
- if () {} / else {}
- while () {}
- try / catch / finally
- closure {}
- (Type) expr
Introduce variable (Alt+Ctrl+V)
- Introduce variable
- Offer the default type and variable name
Structure view
Shows
- classes
- methods
- fields
- founded in groovy file
File structure (Ctrl+F12)
- The popup window contains classes, methods, fields.
Find usage (Alt+F7)
- Implements groovy classes search
Class search (Ctrl+N)
- Searches class by prefix of class groovy name
Grails
- Grails SDK configuration
- Grails controller, view, domain class, job, script, service, taglib creation
- Grails generators are built in; output to console