#1880: Allow reset of installed plugins when launching IDE in force mode by areinicke · Pull Request #1891 · devonfw/IDEasy

areinicke · 2026-05-05T08:50:05Z

This PR fixes #1880

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When launching an IDE in force mode, the user is now prompted whether they want to reset the installed plugins for the IDE. Resetting plugins causes all installed plugins to be deleted. Thereafter, plugins are reinstalled as configured in the project settings.

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File	Lines Losing Coverage	Coverage
com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/plugin/PluginBasedCommandlet.java	12	81.65%
com/devonfw/tools/ide/version/VersionSegment.java	1	89.24%

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satorus · 2026-05-06T08:57:17Z

I tested the -f option with vscode and intellij. With vscode, everything works and looks good! With intellij i get this one always (not sure if this comes from your changes, i guess not...):

Also happens without the -f option, so i guess this is another error...your changes look good!

Start: Install plugin PlantUMLIntegration
Running command 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\software\intellij\bin\idea64.exe' with arguments 'installPlugins' 'PlantUML integration' 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\workspaces\main'
failed with exit code 1!
Running command 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\software\intellij\bin\idea64.exe' with arguments 'installPlugins' 'PlantUML integration' 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\workspaces\main'
failed with exit code 1!
com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.CliProcessException: Running command 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\software\intellij\bin\idea64.exe' with arguments 'installPlugins' 'PlantUML integration' 'C:\Users\rwenzel\projects\IDEasy\workspaces\main'
failed with exit code 1!
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessContextImpl.performLogging(ProcessContextImpl.java:399)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessContextImpl.run(ProcessContextImpl.java:242)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:248)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeaBasedIdeToolCommandlet.runTool(IdeaBasedIdeToolCommandlet.java:90)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeaBasedIdeToolCommandlet.installPlugin(IdeaBasedIdeToolCommandlet.java:58)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.plugin.PluginBasedCommandlet.doInstallPluginStep(PluginBasedCommandlet.java:174)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.plugin.PluginBasedCommandlet.lambda$installPlugins$0(PluginBasedCommandlet.java:161)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.step.Step.run(Step.java:228)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.step.Step.run(Step.java:217)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.plugin.PluginBasedCommandlet.installPlugins(PluginBasedCommandlet.java:161)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.plugin.PluginBasedCommandlet.installPlugins(PluginBasedCommandlet.java:142)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.plugin.PluginBasedCommandlet.postInstall(PluginBasedCommandlet.java:124)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.toolAlreadyInstalled(ToolCommandlet.java:559)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.installTool(LocalToolCommandlet.java:173)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.doInstallStep(LocalToolCommandlet.java:96)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.LocalToolCommandlet.doInstall(LocalToolCommandlet.java:86)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.install(ToolCommandlet.java:302)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeToolCommandlet.install(IdeToolCommandlet.java:70)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:230)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:211)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.runTool(ToolCommandlet.java:190)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeToolCommandlet.runTool(IdeToolCommandlet.java:63)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ToolCommandlet.doRun(ToolCommandlet.java:166)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.tool.ide.IdeToolCommandlet.doRun(IdeToolCommandlet.java:57)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.commandlet.Commandlet.run(Commandlet.java:232)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.AbstractIdeContext.applyAndRun(AbstractIdeContext.java:1315)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.context.AbstractIdeContext.run(AbstractIdeContext.java:1140)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.runOrThrow(Ideasy.java:91)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.run(Ideasy.java:55)
        at com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.Ideasy.main(Ideasy.java:134)

Step 'Install plugin PlantUMLIntegration' ended with failure.
 Step 'Install plugin PlantUMLIntegration' failed: unexpected error
1 step(s) failed out of 3 steps.

areinicke · 2026-05-06T09:31:56Z

Yeah. The PlantUML extension seems to be broken. But like you said, this has nothing to do with my changes.

hohwille

@areinicke thank you for your story idea and this PR implementing it. Great that you also found the perfect spot to document the new feature. 👍
I do have one concern and would like to suggest some improvement via my review comment. Please have a look and consider a small upgrade of this PR. Thanks.

hohwille · 2026-05-08T15:57:35Z

+      boolean resetPlugins = this.context.question(
+        "You are launching " + getName() + " in force mode. Do you want to reset all plugins for " + getName() + "? "
+        + "This will uninstall all currently installed plugins and reinstall them as configured in your IDEasy project settings.");
+      if (resetPlugins) {
+        deleteAllPlugins(pluginsInstallationPath);
+      }


We should limit questions only to the bare minimum (dangerous situations) for UX reasons.
If you want to avoid accidents you can add an explicit FlagProperty called --force-plugins or --force-plugin-reinstall. Example:

IDEasy/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/commandlet/AbstractUpdateCommandlet.java

Line 87 in 83b160b

this.forcePlugins = add(new FlagProperty("--force-plugins"));

I would actually recommend that approach. See also issue #1007

But if you run this use-case frequently you will IMHO start getting annoyed by such question.
If the option --force will remove and reinstall all plugins, then it should do that without asking.
If I do not want to have it, then I do not use --force option.

Suggested change

boolean resetPlugins = this.context.question(

"You are launching " + getName() + " in force mode. Do you want to reset all plugins for " + getName() + "? "

+ "This will uninstall all currently installed plugins and reinstall them as configured in your IDEasy project settings.");

if (resetPlugins) {

deleteAllPlugins(pluginsInstallationPath);

}

deleteAllPlugins(pluginsInstallationPath);

hohwille · 2026-05-08T16:05:31Z

    SystemInfo systemInfo = SystemInfoMock.of(os);
    IdeTestContext context = newContext(PROJECT_ECLIPSE, "eclipseproject");
    context.setSystemInfo(systemInfo);
-    context.getStartContext().setForceMode(true); // #663


This already confirms my suggestion that we should use an explicit flag.
Seems the test was broken by the change since force mode would now cause additional side-effects breaking the existing test.

areinicke added 4 commits May 5, 2026 10:23

Adds option to reset plugins when running in force mode

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Update method name to make it more descriptive

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areinicke added enhancement New feature or request settings ide-settings repo and replated processes and features plugins related to plugins (for Eclipse, Intellij, VSCode, etc.) labels May 5, 2026

areinicke added 2 commits May 5, 2026 13:47

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Merge branch 'main' into feature/1880-reset-ide-plugins-when-using-force

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