Denis, is it still needed? Why do you need location of the file?

There is no strict requirement. Just to provide full control to the project structure. You see, I've defined the ticket as 'feature' with 'minor' priority.

Ok. We'd like to hold up on that feature because it feels 'wrong'. E.g. the tooling api provides the information model but does not know the metadata filesytem structure. It's up to you, on your end to work with the metadata persistent representation.

Tooling api does provide the 'module name' which basically give you the file name (just add the '.iml' extension). The only thing missing would be the project folder which we could make available on GradleProject (from IdeaModule you can navigate to GradleProject via the getter). Does it make sense?

I'm afraid I don't quite understand the rationale behind. There is a dedicated 'idea' gradle plugin that provides various configuration options for IJ model. My proposal was to add one more option that allows to configure *.iml location and expose it to the end-user (please note that it's possible to define *.iml location at IJ GUI when you create new module there).

It's not clear what do you mean under 'project folder' - '.idea'?

Hey,

I think I get it now. It is now possible to configure the output file for the ideaModule via build.gradle dsl:

ideaModule.outputFile = file("somewhere/module.iml")

What you're after is exposing this information in the tooling-api, correct?

Yes, that's right.

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