Add custom Eclipse code formatter

Update Eclipse settings to make use of a custom Spring formatter
implementation. Using a custom formatter allows us to fix a couple of
issues with the version that shipped with Eclipse Mars.1 (Eclipse bugs

The custom formatter also means that it is possible to use Groovy
Eclipse despite the fact that it has formatter regressions (see
https://github.com/groovy/groovy-eclipse/issues/142).

Fixes gh-4136
pull/4212/head
Phillip Webb 9 years ago
parent 04c2bd9c89
commit b779e8e4fc

@ -129,17 +129,19 @@ eclipse. If you don't already have m2eclipse installed it is available from the
marketplace".
Spring Boot includes project specific source formatting settings, in order to have these
work with m2eclipse, we provide an additional eclipse plugin that you can install:
* Download `org.eclipse.m2e.maveneclipse.site.zip` from
https://github.com/philwebb/m2eclipse-maveneclipse/releases.
* Select `Install new software` from the `help` menu
* Click `Add...` to add a new repository
* Click the `Archive...` button
* Select the `org.eclipse.m2e.maveneclipse.site.zip` that you previously downloaded
work with m2eclipse, we provide additional Eclipse plugins that you can install:
===== Install the m2eclipse-maveneclipse plugin
* Select "`Help`" -> "`Install New Software`".
* Add `https://dl.bintray.com/philwebb/m2eclipse-maveneclipse` as a site.
* Install "Maven Integration for the maven-eclipse-plugin"
NOTE: This plugin is optional. Projects can be imported without the plugin, your code
===== Install the Spring Formatter plugin
* Select "`Help`" -> "`Install New Software`".
* Add `https://dl.bintray.com/philwebb/spring-eclipse-code-formatter/` as a site.
* Install "Spring Code Formatter"
NOTE: These plugins are optional. Projects can be imported without the plugins, your code
changes just won't be automatically formatted.
With the requisite eclipse plugins installed you can select

@ -388,3 +388,4 @@ org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.use_tabs_only_for_leading_indentations=false
org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.wrap_before_binary_operator=true
org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.wrap_before_or_operator_multicatch=true
org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.wrap_outer_expressions_when_nested=true
org.eclipse.jdt.core.javaFormatter=org.springframework.ide.eclipse.jdt.formatter.javaformatter

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