Support for Intellij code formatter

[moxit0]

Hi, I am trying to import code formatter from Intellij but unfortunately without success. Is there a way to use Intellij code formatter with this plugin or is still not supported ?

[funfried]

Hello @moxit0,

I think the libraries of the IntelliJ code formatter are not public. At least I could not find any of them in Maven Central or on the JetBrains website. If you know a place where to get them, please let me know, I'm more than happy to integrate their formatter into the plugin.

[moxit0]

I am not aware if Intellij has shared any library, currently they support Code stye format as XML, If this is somehow helpful. In general often developers are trying to migrate from Intellij to some other IDE but due to rest of their teammates are still using Intellij migration is not possible because of different code formatter.

[funfried]

I'm totally aware of that issue, as I faced the same problem with Eclipse and NetBeans. It would make sense to have a common formatter for all IDEs or even IDE independent which is available afaik, but not really used.
Anyways, I downloaded the current IntelliJ CE and it looks like I could use the libraries from within that package, but it's not really decoupled and definitely not meant to be used from outside the IntelliJ IDE. I'll have a closer look soon, but that won't be easy and I'm afraid that I will have to include so many JARs from IntelliJ that in the end I will package the whole IntelliJ IDE
into my plugin, which makes obviously no sense. But as said, I'll try my best even if it doesn't look promising.

[moxit0]

I understand, is it possible some solution like parsing of their exported xml file and then mapping to Eclipse or Netbeans code formatter properties ?

[funfried]

I need to check their XML output, but I'm pretty sure I would have to write my own custom mapper, which could be quite difficult as there might be a lot of options and some of them might not match the options of the Eclipse or NetBeans formatter and then I would need to add some logic into the mapper which could change anytime either on IntelliJ side or on Eclipse or NetBeans side. I'm not sure if I would like to maintain such a thing 😉

[sviperll]

For what it's worth. You can probably use Eclipse as a common formatter. There is an IntelliJ-plugin for this.

[funfried]

Some news on this:

I found the Maven repository for the JetBrains Maven artifacts: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/intellij-artifacts.html
And I think I found the artifacts of the IntelliJ Java formatter, but I did not yet understand how that code works and how or if I can call it to format a NetBeans Editor Document, but I'm on it and hopefully I'll find out how it could be used.

Cheers,
Fabi