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Formatting Source Code programmatically with JDT [message #1042305] Tue, 16 April 2013 08:52 Go to next message
Christoph Keimel is currently offline Christoph KeimelFriend
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Registered: December 2010
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Hello

I am generating some classes with JDT. Afterwards I would like to format the whole ICompilationUnit, just as if I pressed Ctrl+Shift+F (Source > Format) in an open Editor without a selection.

Currently I am using this code:

public static void formatUnitSourceCode(ICompilationUnit targetUnit, IProgressMonitor monitor) throws JavaModelException {
	CodeFormatter formatter = ToolFactory.createCodeFormatter(null);
	String code = targetUnit.getSource();
	TextEdit formatEdit = formatter.format(CodeFormatter.K_UNKNOWN, code, 0, code.length(), 0, null);
	targetUnit.applyTextEdit(formatEdit, monitor);
}


Strangely, after the call to targetUnit.applyTextEdit, targetUnit.getSource() will show the changed source, but this change is not applied to the file. I verified, that targetUnit is not a workingCopy. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Greetings
Christoph
Re: Formatting Source Code programmatically with JDT [message #1042329 is a reply to message #1042305] Tue, 16 April 2013 09:31 Go to previous message
Christoph Keimel is currently offline Christoph KeimelFriend
Messages: 482
Registered: December 2010
Location: Germany
Senior Member
This could be a bug, but using the JDK in Elcipse 4.2.2, it is necessary to create a working copy of the ICompilationUnit in order to apply a TextEdit to the file.
targetUnit.becomeWorkingCopy(new SubProgressMonitor(monitor, 1));
... do work on the source file ...
formatUnitSourceCode(targetUnit, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor, 1));
targetUnit.commitWorkingCopy(true, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor, 1));

The formatting itself is done like this:
public static void formatUnitSourceCode(ICompilationUnit unit, IProgressMonitor monitor) throws JavaModelException {
	monitor.beginTask(NLS.bind("Formatting Compilation Unit \"{0}\"", JavaElementLabels.getElementLabel(unit, JavaElementLabels.ALL_DEFAULT)), 2);
	try {
		CodeFormatter formatter = ToolFactory.createCodeFormatter(null);
		ISourceRange range = unit.getSourceRange();
		TextEdit formatEdit = formatter.format(CodeFormatter.K_COMPILATION_UNIT, unit.getSource(), range.getOffset(), range.getLength(), 0, null);
		if (formatEdit.hasChildren()) {
			unit.applyTextEdit(formatEdit, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor, 1));
			unit.reconcile(AST.JLS4, false, null, new SubProgressMonitor(monitor, 1));
		}
	} finally {
		monitor.done();
	}
}

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