How to setup development environment for plugins?

[jonapich]

I am trying to develop an ApplicationPlugin.

When I hook it in my "global" poetry install through pipx inject it works fine:

PS> pipx install poetry
PS> pipx inject poetry --editable ./ --force
PS> poetry my-plugin  # works
PS> poetry self show plugins  # I can see my plugin

But I'd like to use PyCharm and its debugger... How can I use the poetry from my development virtual environment to launch my plugin?

e.g.:

PS> poetry install  # creates the venv for my project
PS> poetry env activate
PS> & /path/to/venv/activate.ps1

(poetry-plugin-my-plugin-py3.13) PS> poetry my-plugin
The requested command my-plugin does not exist.

(poetry-plugin-my-plugin-py3.13) PS> poetry self show plugins
# it's blank

(poetry-plugin-my-plugin-py3.13) PS> poetry self add ./
Cannot add dependency on poetry-instance to project with the same name.

No changes were applied.

I will of course dig on the best way to attach to the global poetry and then break in my code, but shouldn't the above work in some capacity?

I also tried removing the global poetry just in case there was some weird conflict and nothing changed.

[radoering]

It seems to work for me. If I activate the venv for my working copy of poetry-plugin-bundle, which depends on Poetry so that Poetry itself also is in the venv, for example and run poetry self show plugins, I shows poetry-plugin-bundle. (I do not have it installed for my global Poetry and thus, it is not shown if I do not activate the venv before.)

[jonapich]

There was probably something wrong in my environment 🤔 It seems to work now.

Thanks for answering!