PyCharm - Cannot open project

[MKPlato]

I am using our hosted gitlab CI to publish the report to Qodana cloud. When I click open file in PyCharm, it reports "Cannot find or open the specified project". From log, I can see it try to open jetbrains://pycharm/qodana/showMarker?origin=https://gitlab.mygitlab.com/myproject/plato.git&marker_revision=3ac986ca623f30d5d435d16ca5e2e5eccd1b50da&path=src/plato/invitation/services.py:186:129&length=14&message=Local%20variable%20%27inv_identifier%27%20might%20be%20referenced%20before%20assignment

Qodana is 2023.1 python linter, Pycharm is also latest 2023.1.2. OS is Mac OSX 13.4.

Because our hosted gitlab webpage URL and git URL are different, https://gitlab.mygitlab.com/myproject/plato.git and https://git.mygitlab.com/myproject/plato.git, without "lab" in first part of url. I tried replace it in that URI and open but same result.

I am not sure what is the indicator to tell PyCharm project name. Git origin? or project name in some configuration files under .idea folder?

[brichbash]

Hello,

If you have opened your project in PyCharm before, then Qodana should be able to open problem in the IDE. Does your project remote "origin" match the URL from the log?
Also, please share your PyCharm logs after trying to open the report. You can access them by going to Help | Show Log in Finder

[MKPlato]

My git origin is [email protected]:myproject/plato.git, but our CI site is gitlab.mygitlab.com. However, I tested both origin in that URI, same issue.

The log doesn't have detail errors:

2023-06-05 16:19:36,171 [ 138339]   INFO - #c.i.i.ApplicationLoader - External instance command received
2023-06-05 16:19:36,171 [ 138339]   INFO - #c.i.i.CommandLineProcessor - external URI request:
jetbrains://pycharm/qodana/showMarker?origin=https://gitlab.mygitlab.com:myproject/plato.git&marker_revision=f56fd918f8218ef072f8216e179e20e1773603dd&path=src/plato/invitation/services.py:186:129&length=14&message=Local%20variable%20%27inv_identifier%27%20might%20be%20referenced%20before%20assignment
2023-06-05 16:19:36,789 [ 138957]   INFO - #c.i.w.i.i.j.s.JpsGlobalModelSynchronizerImpl - Saving global entities to files
2023-06-05 16:19:42,522 [ 144690]   INFO - #c.i.w.i.i.j.s.JpsGlobalModelSynchronizerImpl - Saving global entities to files

PyCharm error pop:

[MKPlato]

how does PyCharms locate the project? I thought it could be by that origin. I test in various combination.. no luck. One more guess, my project is a submodule, so it doesn't have .git folder in current project folder. Does PyCharm use that any content from .git folder?

[brichbash]

That's correct. We do rely on .git in the project root.
Could you try running Qodana from your project root with .git setting --project-dir <relative-path-to-submodule> flag? This way, Qodana should resolve your VCS data and qodana.yaml but only analyze your submodule.

[MKPlato]

OK, I updated CI job to root project. After I manually replaced that origin URI from gitlab.mygitlab.com to git.mygitlab.com, it works... So it actually still not working for my case because it seems no way to modify that origin URI.

Furthermore, open VCS was working if Qodana built from the sub-module project, but failed when it was built on root project, due to Gitlab cannot open a submodule project file from root project URI :(

If your future development can consider these scenarios, that will be great! Thank you.

[brichbash]

You can also try using --source-dir instead of --project-dir and check if that resolves the issue. The difference between them is that --project-dir is used to set a directory that Qodana uses for configuration, while --source-directory just limits the analysis scope to the set directory and configures project from the project root.

[MKPlato]

This seems not working Open in VCS in submodule project. Anyway, this is not critical for us. Just hope in future, it can have a perfect solution for open IDE and VCS by different URL and submodule.

[MKPlato]

More information, why our git origin and gitlab CI are using different domain, that is because we are using Cloudflare Zero Trust gateway, we have to use different domain for these two kind of network services.

[brichbash]

Could you please try passing to Qodana job an environment variable QODANA_REMOTE_URL with your git remote URL via the flag -e? This should change the URL from Open in IDE

[MKPlato]

This QODANA_REMOTE_URL resolved Open file in IDE issue.