Make it a VS Code Extension

[brunoborges]

Title says it all. :-P

[jdubois]

I haven’t tried it (I’m using it as a Git pre-hook), but there should already be a Prettier extension, so this should already work.
At least, we shouldn’t build our own extension, the idea is that we benefit from the Prettier ecosystem (or contribute to it). Less work for us, and our users benefit from all the other Prettier plugins.

[brunoborges]

The Prettier extension for VS Code does not come with Java support by default. It requires non-trivial settings to enable JHipster's plugin.

[jdubois]

Oh, let’s have a look at improving it.

[linco95]

I'm using java prettier formatter plugin and it seems to work for me at least.

[mwpb]

Hi all, I'm the 'author' of mwpb.java-prettier-formatter. Thanks for all the hard work on prettier-plugin-java. Did the above discussion lead anywhere? Right now haven't used Java for quite a while and there am probably not right person to maintain a VS Code extension. For the short term, I'm happy to do a small amount of work updating the prettier-plugin-java dependency of mwpb.java-prettier-formatter when required. (C.f. mwpb/java-prettier-formatter#5) But for the long-term, maybe it might make more sense to have the plugin under the auspices ofjhipster? Feel free to copy the mwpb.java-prettier-formatter code or ask questions as you see fit. Thanks,

[chrassig]

Bad news: The VS Code extension by mwpb is not available any more.

Good news: The official VS Code extension for prettier supports plugins for other programming languages, see:
https://github.com/prettier/prettier-vscode?tab=readme-ov-file#plugins

We are using this VS Code extension together with the jhipster Java plugin for prettier in my team to format Java source code files.

[DanielFran]

Thanks @chrassig for the info!
@clementdessoude @jtkiesel, we can probably close this issue and add a note in the documentation https://github.com/jhipster/prettier-java/blob/main/docs/advanced_usage.md#vscode

[jameshearttech]

We are using vs code with the prettier extension. We have the java plugin configured in prettier and vs code is formatting java files as expected afaict.