Installing GitHub Copilot in Eclipse ADT

[kunalchanda]

Introduction

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant platform that helps us while writing code by suggesting lines or blocks of code & troubleshooting them. This guide walks you through installing GitHub Copilot in Eclipse ADT (ABAP Development Tools).

Pre-requisites

• Eclipse IDE with ADT installed

• Existing Github account

Steps

• Open Eclipse IDE and navigate to: Help - Eclipse Marketplace

• Search & Select GitHub Copilot then install it by following the installation prompts.

• Restart Eclipse
• After restarting, Copilot is available in the menu bar. Sign in using Github account.

Using GitHub Copilot in Eclipse

• Code Suggestions: Start typing your code. Copilot will automatically suggest completions. Press TAB to accept a suggestion.

• Chat option: Use the Open Chat option to communicate with Copilot. We can also select the context/object for which we're asking questions or resolving errors.

Conclusion

After using it for few cases of RAP, I feel it needs to be evolve further for ABAP specific developments.  On the other hand the VSCode copilot extension works better for CAP developments in case of code suggestions & troubleshooting.