Is there a formatter ?

[sbernard31]

Is there a formatter or any other way to have a consistent formatting (at least for indentation) ?
I didn't find anything about that.

[sbernard31]

A possible fallback is to use Groovy Editor : groovy/groovy-eclipse#437

But there is a drawback : groovy/groovy-eclipse#1495 ...

Ideally this kind of formatter feature should be directly integrated in JenkinsEditor (and should not reuse Java properties for space/tab indentation)

[de-jcup]

Hello @sbernard31 ,

thank you for the information.

The groovy editor is a standalone plugin which is not connected to the jenkins editor. The jenkins editor is complete standalone - it would not be easy to integrate an external editor part inside jenkins editor, also I would not want to have here any dependency to another product (where I do not know if it would be further developed, would have some drawbacks, hosting/download problems etc.)

So it is no option to integrate the groovy-eclipse parts for the jenkins editor (of course you can use the groovy-editor to edit jenkins files as well!)

When it is only about formatting a declarative jenkins file, there could be possibilities to implement a formatting here, becauses parsing is already (a little bit ) implemented and could be done (explicit for declarative jenkins files).
But I am not sure if this would help you.

Unfortunately I have much time pressure at the moment and no free time for plugin development. As mentioned before, for declarative Jenkins file formatting I think it could be done and if this helps you, I could try to implement it, but I cannot say when I have enough free time to implement - sorry.

[sbernard31]

The jenkins editor is complete standalone - it would not be easy to integrate an external editor part inside jenkins editor, also I would not want to have here any dependency to another product (where I do not know if it would be further developed, would have some drawbacks, hosting/download problems etc.)

Makes sense.

(of course you can use the groovy-editor to edit jenkins files as well!)

It's still an option but it seems a bit overkill. My project contains only declarative jenkins files.

Unfortunately I have much time pressure at the moment and no free time for plugin development. As mentioned before, for declarative Jenkins file formatting I think it could be done and if this helps you, I could try to implement it, but I cannot say when I have enough free time to implement - sorry.

I understand, I feel this could be a very useful feature. That's the first thing I try to do just after installing eclipse-jenkins-editor
But I think this will not be a so easy feature. Especially when you want to propose good formatting setting.

If you implement this feature let me know and thanks for your work on eclipse-jenkins-editor 🙏

[wicketr]

Any type of indentation formatting would be appreciated! Thanks.

[de-jcup]

@sbernard31 , @wicketr :
I just released v1.11.0 on eclipse marketplace which contains the simple formatter. Hope this is useful.