Format text blocks + Intellij reflows strings #1419

crogoz · 2025-09-25T11:47:21Z

Before this PR

Text blocks were not formatted.
Intellij would not wrap long strings/would not format textBlocks. Different behaviour when running the formatter via the Intellij plugin vs. the gradle task.

After this PR

Fixes: #930
Fixes: #1331

Text blocks get formatted, by adding the initial """ on the previous line, the text block gets reindented.
Same behaviour between the Intellij plugin & gradle task formatters.

Example of a re-format: https://pl.ntr/2x2
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Format text blocks + Intellij reflows strings
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crogoz · 2025-09-25T11:52:11Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/doc/Token.java


    @Override
    protected float computeWidth() {
+        if (token.getTok().getOriginalText().startsWith(StringWrapper.TEXT_BLOCK_DELIMITER)) {


before - when the textBlock+methods would exceed 120 characters (maxWidthLimit), the block would look like this:

""" hello %s this exceeds 120 characters nasddnsadalsdaslda """ .formatted("world");

now:

""" hello %s this exceeds 120 characters nasddnsadalsdaslda """.formatted("world");

crogoz · 2025-09-25T11:58:29Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/java/FormatFileCallable.java

+                if (!StringWrapper.linesNeedWrapping(options.maxLineLength(), formattedText, characterRanges)) {
+                    return writeFormatReplacements(replacements);
+                }
+                String wrappedFormattedText = StringWrapper.wrap(options.maxLineLength(), formattedText, formatter);


same behaviour now as with the gradle formatter task:

palantir-java-format/gradle-palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/gradle/spotless/PalantirJavaFormatStep.java

Line 72 in 1cc1160

return memoizedFormatter.get()::formatSourceReflowStringsAndFixImports;

.

The alternative would have been to directly call the same method in the Intellij plugin, however I think this would be a bit more optimal - because when there is no need to call the wrapper, we can simply return just the replacement ranges. Worst case happens here where we have to send back the full document range to be reformatted.

crogoz · 2025-09-25T12:02:22Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/java/StringWrapper.java

            throws FormatterException {
-        JCTree.JCCompilationUnit unit = parse(input, /* allowStringFolding= */ false);
-        String separator = Newlines.guessLineSeparator(input);
+        return new Reflower(columnLimit, input).getReflowReplacements();


tried to keep this in line with pjf logic - refactored to be similar to pjf - as it easier to compare diffs.

crogoz · 2025-09-25T12:03:26Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/java/StringWrapper.java

+                String prefix = (lineStartPosition + startColumn + 4 > startPosition ? "" : " ".repeat(4))
+                        + " ".repeat(startColumn);
+
+                StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(initialLines.get(0));


diverges from gjf to ensure we indent text blocks

crogoz · 2025-09-25T12:04:53Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/java/StringWrapper.java

+     * column limit or contain text blocks. Used by the Intellij plugin to check if we need to run StringWrapper.wrap.
+     * Keep this method and {@code needWrapping} in line.
+     * */
+    public static boolean linesNeedWrapping(int columnLimit, String input, RangeSet<Integer> initialRangesToChange) {


pjf specific - we need to figure out if we need to wrap the current input in the rangeSet initialRangesToChange

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crogoz · 2025-09-25T13:53:33Z

palantir-java-format/src/test/resources/com/palantir/javaformat/java/testdata/RSL.output

+            """ + """
+            bar
+            """;
+        String u = stringVariableOne + """


unfortunately string concatenation is not great with text blocks and I am not sure if I can change it.
after running the AST formatter I am getting (The AST cannot change the indentation of the text block node):

String u = stringVariableOne + """ ... """ + stringVariableTwo + """ ... """;

and then after I try to re-indent the text blocks and given that I am trying to indent based on the previous line, I am getting the block below.

For these kind of text block operations, people should try to keep the textBlocks indented at the same line with the rest of the operands and then the block will be properly indented

crogoz · 2025-09-25T15:30:34Z

Depends on palantir/gradle-baseline#3276. Adding do not merge until the previous PR is merged

message · 2025-10-01T09:55:33Z

CRogers · 2025-10-01T13:14:32Z

palantir-java-format/src/main/java/com/palantir/javaformat/java/StringWrapper.java

-            int lineEnd = end;
-            while (Newlines.hasNewlineAt(input, lineEnd) == -1) {
-                lineEnd++;
+        private void indentTextBlocks(TreeRangeMap<Integer, String> replacements, List<Tree> textBlocks) {


In general the changes in this PR look much better! I ran it on gradle-guide here and most of the changes are an improvement imo.

The only weirdness (on this repo at least) is around multiple text block arguments to the same method, example:

refactorFromTo(""" someCode """, """ otherCode """);

I think the second text block is getting indented out of line with the first because the first ending """ has been indented?

You can take this to it's logical extreme:

void lotsOfStringParams(String a, String b, String c, String d, String e, String f, String g) {} void test() { lotsOfStringParams(""" aaa """, """ bbb """, """ ccc """, """ ddd """, """ eee """, """ fff """, """ ggg """); }

Ah, this might be the same as a concatenation issue?

If you force it to put each arg on a new line by making one arg very long, it kinda looks better but stops the """, """ pattern:

void lotsOfStringParams(String a, String aa, String b, String c) {} void test() { lotsOfStringParams( """ aaa """, "sdklfjslfkjsadlkgjsdklfjsadlkfjsaklfjaskdsfkljsaklfjsadflkjsdafkljasdfklsjfklsajflkasjfsfjksflfj", """ bbb """, """ ccc """); }

re: last example with the one long arg
I believe this has to do with how parameters for a method are going to be structured if the maxLineColumn would exceed - same behaviour if we had long variable names/long annotated variables.

void test( String aaaaaaaaaa, @NotNull @Variable Ssdklfjslfkjsdasdadasasdsadsadasdasadadasddadsasdsadadasdadadasdas variable, String bbbbbb) { lotsOfStringParams( aaaaaaaaaa, sdklfjslfkjsdasdadasasdsadsadasdasadadasddadsasdsadadasdadadasdasadadasdasfasfasfasfas, bbbbbb); }

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Do not flag textBlock lineLength palantir/gradle-baseline#3276

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