Javascript in IntelliJ's "IDE scripting console"

Question

Recent versions of IntelliJ have an "IDE scripting console" option under the tools menu. I've had a hard time finding blog posts about it. Some of these posts pointed out, and the gui proves this, that it has support for javascript. Could someone please point me to an example or blogpost how to use this feature (api docs) with javascript please?

Answer 1

Here is how to use it: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/ide-scripting-console.html

Here is the API docs: http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/welcome.html

Best/largest(?) set of examples I could find: https://gist.github.com/gregsh/b7ef2e4ebbc4c4c11ee9

Unfortunately for JS there is the least amount of examples. That said, I've tried to implement an Action that starts the first Run Configuration. The code actually works pretty well. I've got stuck, however, on how to extend the Java Action abstract class from JS. Below is the working code:

var result = function run() {
    var executor = com.intellij.execution.executors.DefaultDebugExecutor.getDebugExecutorInstance();
    var runConfigsSettings = com.intellij.execution.RunManager.getInstance(IDE.project).allSettings;
    var a = com.intellij.execution.ProgramRunnerUtil.executeConfiguration(IDE.project, runConfigsSettings[0], executor);
    return a;
}()

I found the necessary docs here:

http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/run_configurations/run_configuration_execution.html#starting-a-run-configuration-from-code

Hope this could help anyone. Write in the comments if you know how to create an Action in JS.