0015 intellij refactoring dialog

15. Intellij refactoring dialog

This ADR has been recorded retrospectively.

Status

Accepted

Context

In Intellij, invoking refactoring opens up a dialog. Since refactoring builds the project again, it takes sometime to see a success and failure message. If the refactoring fails, the new step text that was entered is not visible anymore

Decision

Discarded option to implement Inline refactoring as it is not easy to support this when inline step tables are present. Also, the success/fail message takes sometime to appear.
Change refactoring dialog to wait for build, and refactor to pass. If there are any errors show them on the dialog. Parse and validation errors should be shown to the user and they should be able to easily navigate to the error.

Consequences