IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin configuration via a file

IntelliJ Plugin understanding

As I understand it by looking through the code, when using the IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin there are 4 code options to be selected to re-format my code. If I were to configure the line length to 120 in the gradle plugin, the IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin would reformat differently and I would have to call ktfmtFormat by hand in order to passe the quality gate set by ktfmtCheck.

Feature Request

In order to sync the IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin with the Gradle-settings I would like to introduce a Gradle-task, which will write a File with all set settings. In turn this file can be checked in and loaded by the IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin. This will ensure that Gradle and IntelliJ/ AS will format in the same way.

If the authors of this tool see it as a beneficial addition, I would try to implement it in the Gradle and IntelliJ/ AS-Plugin.

[cortinico]

I’m a bit torn on this, because ktfmt is not configurable on purpose. We do support the “default” format (used internally at Facebook) and “google” format (used internally at Google and possibly others), and these are thoroughly tested and the tests maintained.

Makes sense 👍 Then @SergejIsbrecht probably the safest approach for you would be to setup your own machinery to share some config, perhaps using environment variables or .properties files.

[SergejIsbrecht]

@cortinico,

setup your own machinery to share some config, perhaps using environment variables or .properties files.

I can do that, but how will the AS-Plugin know which file to load? I may as well fork the AS-Plugin, but I actually do not want to cherry-pick the changes from main-line to my fork.

I think it is quite strange that the Gradle-Plugin (max line len) is configurable but the AS-Plugin is not.