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Asked: 2026-05-21T23:54:37+00:00

I know where to change the preferences for the Formatter and change the options

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I know where to change the preferences for the Formatter and change the options there. I’m unable to figure out how to get it to format the way I want it to, and would like some assistance, if possible, to format this ‘my’ way. 🙂

It is currently set to “Wrap where necessary”, and this seems like the closest to what I want. And yet, it’s is producing results that aren’t quite what I want.
An example of the current formatting looks something like 

LOG.error(
    String.format(
        "Creating JSON Object from event array @ line number %d failed",
        key.get()), e);

This is much better than what was there. I re-formatted this code. Before it looked like 

        LOG
                .error(
                        String
                                .format(
                                        "Creating JSON Object from event array @ line number %d failed",
                                        key.get()), e);

And that formatting is all over the code. And yes, the tabbing is accurately reflected as what is in the code. Previous dev must of had different settings… It looking like this is what prompted me to write the code. Doing my investigation and checking showed my settings (default) to produce the first snippet. If that was representative of all the code, I probably would be fine. But since I started writing, I’m justy continuing.

So, onto what I would like. I would like this to end up as 

LOG.error(String.format(
        "Creating JSON Object from event array @ line number %d failed",
        key.get()), e);

The string gets broken out because it extends over the line length and the key.get... get broken because it’s past the line length. The string itself (as positioned) is over the line length which is why the key.get... is dropped a line.

I’m not familiar enough with the settings in eclipse that deal with this (found them today thanks to google) and randomly changing things hoping to find what I’m looking for isn’t that appealing of an option.

Obviously the length of the components are going to affect the results as is the starting white space.
In the two examples of how the formatting is operating LOG.error(String.Format( is not longer than the line length. I don’t want it broken into two lines. What do I change to correct that? (man that was a long post for that simple of a question… hehe)

UPDATE:
I tried to do the // as suggested below and I got the following result

LOG.error(
        String.format(
                //
                "Creating JSON Object from event array @ line number %d failed",
                key.get()), e);
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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks for the input. It doesn’t seem that I’ll be able to get it exactly how I want. The flexibility just doesn’t seem to be there.

    I have a few other lines which helped guide how the settings I’ve settled on.

    For Arguments I have Wrap where necessary and Indent on column.
    For Qualified invocations I set it to Do not wrap.

    The rest are less frequent occurrences. I set them to Wrap where necessary and Indent by one. The few instances I looked at for these, it looked to set them up the way I like.

    The result I end up with for the specified line, is the same as Digitalxero shows. And if I use the // as Jean-Philippe Pellet mentions, it will now do as he shows.
    I’m not going to use the // (while I like the suggestion) since I don’t care enough about the formatting to scatter // throughout the code.

    Overall, these settings get it to a point where everything tends to work close enough to where I would like it.

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