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command line formatter chokes on generics? [message #240248]

Fri, 02 February 2007 05:46

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: hemalpandya.gmail.com

I don't know what I am doing wrong, but I am not able to use the formatter
on the command line with classes that use the java Generics syntax.

The following file formats OK inside the IDE:

public class Generic<T>
{
T newInstance(Class<T> tclass) throws Exception
{ return tclass.newInstance(); }}

But when I try to format it on the command line with the following:

java -cp $ECLIPSE_HOME/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-noupdate -application org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCodeFormatter -config
format.config.xml Generic.java

I get the error:
The Eclipse formatter failed to format d:\tmp\Generic.java. Skip the file.

I am pretty sure this is because the formatter does not format this as 1.5
source. But I can't figure out where to specify the compatibility level
for the command line tool.

Thanks in advance and apologies if I failed to find this in some obvious
spot.

The config file format.config.xml is empty. I confirmed that java version
is 1.5.0_09. Using Eclipse 3.2.1 M20060921-0945

Re: command line formatter chokes on generics? [message #240331 is a reply to message #240248]

Fri, 02 February 2007 09:05

Eclipse User

Hemal Pandya a écrit :
> But when I try to format it on the command line with the following:
>
> java -cp $ECLIPSE_HOME/startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
> -noupdate -application org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCodeFormatter -config
> format.config.xml Generic.java
In the format.config.xml please add entries for the source compliance,
source version and target version to 1.5.
And it should work.
--
Olivier

Re: command line formatter chokes on generics? [message #240339 is a reply to message #240331]

Fri, 02 February 2007 09:12

Eclipse User

Olivier Thomann a écrit :
> In the format.config.xml please add entries for the source compliance,
> source version and target version to 1.5.
> And it should work.
I forgot the link to the help page. Search the help for this page:
"Generating a config file for the Formatter Application"
--
Olivier

Re: command line formatter chokes on generics? [message #240344 is a reply to message #240339]

Fri, 02 February 2007 11:42

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: hemalpandya.gmail.com

Olivier Thomann wrote:

> Olivier Thomann a écrit :
>> In the format.config.xml please add entries for the source compliance,
>> source version and target version to 1.5.
>> And it should work.
> I forgot the link to the help page. Search the help for this page:
> "Generating a config file for the Formatter Application"
> --
> Olivier

Perfect. Thanks Olivier. I couldn't find the setting earlier in the config
file but that was because I hadn't enabled project specific settings.

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