Play with Activator Issue on IntelliJ Idea 14

Question

I have the following problem on IntelliJ IDEA 14:

I created a Play (Scala) project using the Activator (v1.2.10). Then, I converted it to an IDEA project using activator idea command. When, I opened the project with IDEA 14 (Community Edition) the SBT module is not enabled. Therefore, a new dependency in build.sbt file is not included in the classpath. Moreover, the project is not listed in IDEA's SBT view.

The following warning is shown by IDEA:

"This IDEA project is converted from an SBT project by gen-idea tool, which currently relies on a legacy Scala project model. Please consider using built-in SBT support via the Import project action."

Note that, the Scala and SBT plugins are already installed on IDEA.

I don't encounter with the same issue in IDEA 13.

Answer 1

Have you tried File | Import Project and select build.sbt file?

IDEA imports it as an SBT project, with all the dependencies properly resolved. It works fine for me on IDEA 14 and on 13.

Answer 2

Apparently, this is a bug in some versions of IntelliJ 14, that just got fixed (as of version 14.0.3). Updating IJ then updating the scala plugin seems to make things work.