In Eclipse, you can provide the program argument ${string_prompt} in your run configuration to have it prompt for the command line arguments.
Is there a way to do this in IntelliJ?
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Starting from versions 2018.3 and 2019.1, IntelliJ now supports macros in Run configurations. You can use $Prompt$ anywhere in the VM Options, Program arguments, etc. fields, and it will behave just like ${string_prompt} in Eclipse -- it will prompt you for parameters when the configuration is run.
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Edit:
This may be a bug in IDEA, the solution that I first posted (you can see it below) causes Intellij to hang after entering parameter.
I couldn't come up with a solution to this, but here's a little trick: you can scroll to the very bottom of Run/Debug configuration screen and in "Before launch" section check a checkbox saying "Show this page".
From now on you'll be automatically shown configuration screen when you choose to Run/Debug your application and there you can enter any parameters you want... It's not that comfortable, but at least a little bit more automatized.
Previous answer:
This is a bit more complicated with Intellij:
- go to
Settings -> External Tools -> Add (green plus) - in
Parametersline clickInsert macro -> Prompt(you can simply type in$Prompt$as well) - save settings
- go to
Run -> Edit Configurations... - in
Before Launchsection chooseRun External Tooland select tool that you've created
That should suffice (works in IDEA 12.1.6).
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Carl Karawani
Thanks for the feedback Michal, tried this and it seems like the run just hangs/dies and I can't re-run unless I re-open intelliJ. In the config for the external tool, is there anything else you set other than the
$Prompt$ param? Did you leave the Program and Working Directory fields blank?
Michał Rybak
Sorry for late reply, busy days. You're right - I saw it prompting for parameter and assumed it works... please see my edited answer, this is all I could think of for now.
maricn
This works only for a single
$Prompt$. Do you know if it's possible to have multiple prompts and how? Thanks
mzijdemans
@maricn Maybe a bit late, but try:
$Prompt$ $Prompt$, this gets a bit annoying when you need a lot of arguments or an unknown amount of argument, perhaps then create a fallback to split the first argument based on spacesBased on using Intellij IDEA 2020.3, we can set the configuration to prompt for program arguments at the program arguments field
