Junit5: Code Styling via Intellij

[dotCipher]

I am an intellij user, and it seems like the default Intellij project files set the import order to be different than what you guys specified in the CONTRIBUTING.md > Formatting section, thus the arrangement of import ordering conflicts directly between the two styles. This manifest itself as when a developer applies the Cmd + Alt + L (format code) command to intellij, the order will change once (via the intellij formatting style) then immediately a second time (via the enabled eclipse formatter).

This can be confusing since the order of formatters seems to be non-deterministic, thus leaving the developer in an unknown state of proper formatting. I realize that applying ./gradlew spotlessApply can fix this on an ad-hoc basis, but it might be better to have tooling that directly alters the default Intellij project code style files, instead of bypassing it through a third-party plugin.

[sbrannen]

@marcphilipp, @mmerdes, & @sormuras: how do you deal with that situation?

[jbduncan]

I can't speak for anyone else, but as someone who contributed to JUnit 5 in the past with IntelliJ IDEA, I just clicked on the check and spotlessApply tasks in the Gradle view whenever I needed to test changes and fix formatting respectively...

Allowing, for example, spotlessApply to be invoked with a keyboard shortcut like (Ctrl|Cmd) + Alt + L would be good, though. Perhaps there's a way of doing this in IntelliJ that I'm unaware of?

[sormuras]

Same for me. Executing a saved run configuration calling "gradlew spotlessApply build" or sometimes even "gradlew clean spotlessApply build".

[pauldingemans]

See section "Rearrange code" on page https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/reformat-and-rearrange-code.html how to set the order of the imports in IntelliJ. If this suffices, please close the issue.

[marcphilipp]

@dotCipher Have you tried using https://github.com/krasa/EclipseCodeFormatter?

[dotCipher]

This answer suffices, thank you for the clarification