#The JumpToCodePlugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Introduction

The JumpToCode plugin waits for requests from external programs to jump to a specific source location.

The idea is that log-file viewers like Chainsaw and Vigilog interact with this plugin. When viewing a log-entry or stacktrace in Vigilog, users can click on a location and make IDEA jump to the corresponding location in the source code.

Current version of Vigilog (1.3.1) can communicate with IDEA via this plugin. see http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/

Details

This info is only for people that want to integrate with the plugin. If you just want to use the plugin, installing it should be enough.

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The plugin features an very simple embedded HTTP server.

By default it listens on port 5986. But that's configurable of course.

It understands only three operations:

• jump: make IDEA jump to a specific location
• test: test if IDEA can jump to a specific location (without actually jumping)
• form: show a form to perform one of the other two operations (for testing)

Parameters

The following parameters are recognized:

className is only used when packageName and/or fileName is missing.

It's preferable to use packageName + fileName + lineNumber

Examples:

http://localhost:5986/?o=jump&p=java.lang&f=String.java&l=120

http://localhost:5986/?p=java.lang&f=String.java&l=120

=> jump to line 120 of java.lang.String

http://localhost:5986/?o=test&p=com.googlecode.firewood&f=Foo.java&l=120

=> test if file Foo.java in package com.googlecode.firewood is known to IDEA