IDE Feature Request: error checking

[kevin]

It would be nice if the IDE reported errors/warnings rather than just saving. For example if I add a runIn() to my DH, it does not execute, but it saves without error or warning. I keep forgetting that these schedule methods are only for SmartApps.

[JDRoberts]

There’s a thread for IDE feature requests

Tell me your IDE issues

As some of you already know, I recently became an employee of SmartThings. My job is to improve the IDE. Since I started as a community developer, I have my own list of issues that I’m hoping to improve. I would also like to hear from you about the problems you run into. If you can split individual issues into separate posts, that would be ideal. If you agree with something someone else has posted, hit the heart icon. That will help me see which issues affect the most people. I can’t promise to fix everything you tell us for reasons that are familiar to devs everywhere (time involved, priorities, etc). But I will address everything I can. Issues from this topic Console Logging Sortable tables Coming Soon Consistent wording (Device Type, Device Handler, SmartDevice) Link from devic…

Not sure who’s monitoring it now though since @dianoga is working on a different project.

@jody.albritton might know.

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

It does do a “compile” of sorts and will report syntax errors, but the example you gave is difficult (but not impossible) to detect until execution time.

I’m glad SmartThings is keeping a wish list for the IDE, but we are told emphatically that resources are concentrated on overall, consumer facing platform stability.