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code style (and auto formatting) not working [message #1858404]

Sat, 01 April 2023 00:51

Roman Chyla

Messages: 6
Registered: February 2016

Junior Member

Hello, I cannot get even the simplest code style to work.

A simple test: Java > Code Style > Edit default eclipse style > Set indentation to 8 > save under different name > edit java and apply (ctrl+shift+f)

or with:

Set Java > Editor > Actions > Format all code on save

if I insert multiple spaces between tokens, they get collapsed -- so some code cleanup clearly happens, but not the "code formatting"

I tried Eclipse 20230-3, 2022-?? -- updated everything; played with profiles. This is on Ubuntu with Amazon corretto, made a fresh install - but used the same workspace...

I can't find any errors in the error.log; eclipse verbose output is no revealing anything (to me at least), been at it for the past few hours and am really stuck. Would appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

[Updated on: Sat, 01 April 2023 00:52]

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Re: code style (and auto formatting) not working [message #1858405 is a reply to message #1858404]

Sat, 01 April 2023 05:27

Eitan Rosenberg

Messages: 149
Registered: October 2018

Senior Member

Hello,

Works OK in my case.

Regards.

[Updated on: Sat, 01 April 2023 13:50]

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Re: code style (and auto formatting) not working [message #1858418 is a reply to message #1858405]

Sun, 02 April 2023 00:38

David M. Karr

Messages: 810
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Are you certain that Eclipse knows you're working on a Java source file?

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Re: code style (and auto formatting) not working [message #1858427 is a reply to message #1858418]

Sun, 02 April 2023 17:52

Roman Chyla

Messages: 6
Registered: February 2016

Junior Member

Unfortunately, I got trapped by this: https://github.com/google/styleguide/issues/687 -- eclipse formatter + google style produce vastly different results from `google-java-format` plugin. E.g. method parameters are not on separate lines.

On top of that, the plugin was not working (activated) in the recent Eclipse -- no errors; I figured that out only after trying with an older eclipse - which produced the error.

this needs to be passed (eclipse.ini)

```
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.code=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.file=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.parser=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.tree=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.util=ALL-UNNAMED
```

so three problems conspired to make my life miserable

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