Classes in SFDX subdirectories cannot be resolved

[Ilija Pavlic]

When classes are stored in subdirectories of a SFDX project, Illuminated Cloud is not able to resolve them. They are colored red for “Cannot resolve symbol”, and their methods cannot be autocompleted. This is true even after rebuilding a full symbol table. Illuminated Cloud is able to autocomplete their names, it knows they exist, but can’t figure out how to use them.

[Scott Wells]

Hi, Ilija. The most common reason for this is that the classes are not being stored in a formal source directory. Can you provide your .iml file for this project and tell me the project-relative path of one of the classes which is not being resolve properly?

[Ilija Pavlic]

The class might be in force-app/main/default/classes/api

The .iml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module type="IlluminatedCloud" version="4">
  <component name="FacetManager">
    <facet type="IlluminatedCloud" name="Illuminated Cloud">
      <configuration>
        <option name="connectionName" value="[e-mail]" />
        <option name="connectionType" value="SFDX" />
        <option name="moduleContents">
          <ModuleContents>
            <option name="contentSelectionType" value="SELECTED" />
          </ModuleContents>
        </option>
      </configuration>
    </facet>
  </component>
  <component name="NewModuleRootManager">
    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$" isTestSource="false" />
      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.sfdx/tools/sobjects" />
      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.sfdx/typings" />
      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.tmp" />
      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/temp" />
      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/tmp" />
    </content>
    <orderEntry type="jdk" jdkName="IlluminatedCloud (projectname/[e-mail])" jdkType="IlluminatedCloud" />
    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
  </component>
</module>

[Scott Wells]

It looks like you have the root directory selected as a source root. You might remove that and add force-app/main/default as well as any other path that contains source files, e.g., force-app/test/default if you're segregating production source from test source.

Let me know if that doesn't help.

[Ilija Pavlic]

Replaced <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$" isTestSource="false" /> with <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/force-app/main/default" isTestSource="false" />. Generated full offline symbol table. Same issue.

[Scott Wells]

Okay, I'll need to see your idea.log to see what's going on. Can you get that using Help>Show Log in Explorer/Finder/Files and either attach it here or email it to [e-mail]?

One other thing to check as you do so...what version of the base IDE are you running? If it's not up-to-date, please update it as there have been breaking plugin SDK changes that could be contributing to the issue. If you're definitely up-to-date and the problem is still occurring, send me the log as requested above.

[Ilija Pavlic]

Issue resolved over a call. It was a case of duplicate classes across folders.