Google Java Formatter as external application

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Running the current snapshot version of Google-Java-Formatter against all source sets, I frist tried the plugin https://github.com/sherter/google-java-format-gradle-plugin. It does not support the current snapshot API. Here’s my hand-crafted solution. Download with dependencies and execute as a Java program:

configurations {
    format
}

dependencies {
    format "com.google.googlejavaformat:google-java-format:1.2-SNAPSHOT"
}

task downloadFormat(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.format
    into "$buildDir/format"
}

task runFormat(type: JavaExec) {

    def mainJavaFiles = sourceSets.main.allJava.files
    mainJavaFiles.removeIf{ file -> file.name.endsWith('module-info.java') }

    classpath = fileTree(dir: "$buildDir/format", include: '*.jar')

    main 'com.google.googlejavaformat.java.Main'
    args '--replace'
    args mainJavaFiles
    args sourceSets.test.allJava.files
}

runFormat.dependsOn downloadFormat

Is there a more Gradle-way to solve this?

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Don’t mean to sidetrack you, but it might be easier to accomplish this using the spotless plugin, which formats code using the Eclipse formatter.

plugins {
    id 'com.diffplug.gradle.spotless' version '2.0.0'
}

spotless {
    java {
        eclipseFormatFile 'googlestyle.xml'
    }
}

Google maintains an eclipse formatter for their style.

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Hi Ned, Google maintain-ed it until 4 Feb 2014.

The sweet thing about google-java-format is that it does not require any configuration - just run it out of the box.

4

Good to know. I’ve added an issue to Spotless for handling this.

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Turns out someone is using Spotless to do what you want. Here’s a code snippet:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.google.googlejavaformat:google-java-format:1.2-SNAPSHOT'
    }
}

plugins {
    id "com.diffplug.gradle.spotless" version "2.1.0"
}

spotless {
    java {
        customLazyGroovy('google-java-format') {
            com.google.googlejavaformat.java.Formatter formatter = new com.google.googlejavaformat.java.Formatter()
            return { source -> formatter.formatSource(source) }
        }
    }
}
6

Fresh from spotless 2.1.0 :wink: Looks promising,

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:laughing: Yeah. I’ve long told people "use customLazy", but turns out that Groovy and Java 8 functional interfaces only sort of get along, so I finally found out today that we needed a groovy-workaround for Groovy buildscripts.

8

:spotlessApplied

Thanks.

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Since spotless 2.2.0 Ned added support for google-java-format directly. See https://github.com/diffplug/spotless#applying-to-java-source-google-java-format

spotless {
    java {
        googleJavaFormat()
    }
}