IntelliJ Plugin - Run Console Command

Question

I am new to plugin development for IntelliJ and would like to know, how I can execute a command in the command line from within my plugin.

I would like to call, for instance, the command "gulp" in the current projects root directory.

I already tried using

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commands);

with commands like "cd C:\Users\User\MyProject" and "gulp", but it does not seem to work that way and I wonder, if the plugin API provides an easier method.

Answer 1

I know its a bit late (1 year later), but recently I was working on an IntelliJ plugin and I had the same issue and this is what I used and it works pretty well.

First, we need to create a list of commands that we need to execute:

  ArrayList<String> cmds = new ArrayList<>();
  cmds.add("./gradlew");

Then

  GeneralCommandLine generalCommandLine = new GeneralCommandLine(cmds);
  generalCommandLine.setCharset(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
  generalCommandLine.setWorkDirectory(project.getBasePath());

  ProcessHandler processHandler = new OSProcessHandler(generalCommandLine);
  processHandler.startNotify();

hence the generalCommandLine.setWorkDirectory is set to the project directory which could be equivalent to the terminal command cd path/to/dir/