SRC folder of Google App Engine Flexible project is empty

Question

I was fallowing a guide of creating a new java project in IntellIJ IDEA and in the end I got empty folder src without any files or sub-folders in it. Does anybody know what did I do wrong?

Answer 1

I work on this plugin. This is unfortunately all that is available for now using the App Engine flexible new project wizard. I would suggest instead to start from publicly available AE flex github project (such as the one referenced in this guide ). You could also start with any Java 8 project as well since you are running on flex - you can then use the plugin to add App Engine flexible support to it:

Tools > Google Cloud Tools > Add App Engine support > Google App Engine Flexible

This will generate a template app.yaml for you and also expose the App Engine plugin features (like deploying to GCP).

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with the project that you created. Since you were creating a new project, your project has an empty src folder with a .iml file. As eshaul commented, if you selected Create app.yaml box in the wizard, then the project will contain a template app.yaml under src/main/appengine .

Regarding this image , the files in the project helloworld are imported from Cloud Repositories . The procedure to import an existing project in Cloud Source Repositories is explained in the same tutorial that you was following (Checking out an existing project).