The Syntax highlighting feature uses the rule based scanner class. The scanner takes a givent number of rules, and cosumes the impex file and evalutes each token. If the token matches a rule, the scanner exits with the corresponding properties.

The ruleset are based on the Hybris Impex syntax documentation

Before :

After :

I also used the Preferences API to allow customisation, to give the more friendly user experience.

It's possible to customize the feel and look of the Impex file:

And you can configure the connection with hybris, to execute and validate the impex with any running instance of hybris !

The first time eclipse run, the plugin connect to a the already configured running hybris instance (by default the localhost),call the Rest Webservice allItems , and allAttributes (exposed by hybris) and store the information to avoid call the web service again.

To detect newly added Items or attributes, I Implementer an action to refresh the already stored data definition.

The web services exposed by hybris require a registered hybris account and it's secured against Cross-site request forgery.

To make a successful call the request should pass a crsf token, the token is associated with the connected account. the challenge was that token is stored on the HTML code of a response, and I had to use the jsoup library to retrieve the token.

• Make a first to login, the call return with a JSESSIONID, I store the JSESSIONID for a further call.
• Use jsoup with the stored JSESSIONID, and get the crsf token from the html.
• Make a Rest Call to retrieve the Items and attributes definition.

The auto-completion is the moste liked what the most user look for in any text editor, since i have stored the data deffinition, this feature was easy to implement as well :

This project is built using Eclipse Tycho (https://www.eclipse.org/tycho/) and requires at least maven 3.0 (http://maven.apache.org/download.html) to be built via CLI. Simply run :

mvn install

The first run will take quite a while since maven will download all the required dependencies in order to build everything.

In order to use the generated eclipse plugins in Eclipse, you will need m2e (https://www.eclipse.org/m2e) and the m2eclipse-tycho plugin (https://github.com/tesla/m2eclipse-tycho/). Update sites to install these plugins :

• m2e stable update site : http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/
• m2eclipse-tycho dev update site : http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/.m2e/connectors/m2eclipse-tycho/0.7.0/N/0.7.0.201309291400/

To install the features contained here, press Help > Install New Software… in your Eclipse IDE and enter the URL http://eljoujat.github.io/updates/.

Or :

just copy the latest release from here impex editor relases to the dropins folder under eclipse directory , restart eclipse , and enjoy :)

Other features I'm working on are :

• Validate the impex with error markers.
• Execute the impex .
• Hyperlink features to easily locate where an Item is already valued from the same impex .
• Find usage Features, find all usage for the selected definied and selected item .
• Formatting .