Prettier Java

Intro

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

How it works

A Prettier plugin must first parse the source code of the target language into a traversable data structure (Usually an Abstract Syntax Tree) and then print out that data structure in a "pretty" style.

Prettier-Java uses a Java-Parser implemented in JavaScript using the Chevrotain Parser Building Toolkit for JavaScript. What this means is that unlike many other Prettier plugins, prettier-java has no additional runtime pre-requisites (e.g: Python executable). It could even be used inside a browser.

Subpackages

This project contains 2 packages:

• prettier-plugin-java A plugin for Prettier to format Java code

  

• java-parser A Java Parser using Chevrotain which output a Concrete Syntax Tree

  

Install

Pre-requirements

• Node version 10+

Install Prettier and Prettier-Java plugin

# Local installation
npm install prettier-plugin-java --save-dev

# Or globally
npm install -g prettier prettier-plugin-java

or with yarn:

# Local installation
yarn add prettier-plugin-java --dev

# Or globally
yarn global add prettier prettier-plugin-java

Note: If you want to install the prettier-plugin-java globally, you should also install the prettier package globally.

Usage

To reformat all your Java files, run:

# If you have installed the package locally
npx prettier --write "**/*.java"

# Or globally
prettier --write "**/*.java"

To see an advanced usage: please go to the Advanced Usage section

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. See the contribution guide to get started. And the Help Wanted issues.

Credits

Special thanks to @thorbenvh8 for creating the original prettier-java plugin and the associated Java Parser implemented in JavaScript.

We would also like to thank the Chevrotain and Prettier contributors which made this possible.