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Bug 459304

Summary:	Improve line breaking when formatting ternary operators
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Roland Illig <rillig>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Mateusz Matela <mateusz.matela>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Manoj N Palat <manoj.palat>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	jarthana, mateusz.matela
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	4.5 M6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	To be verified for 4.6 M6

Description Roland Illig

2015-02-06 06:43:11 EST

Comment 1 Roland Illig

2015-02-06 06:48:46 EST

When I have this ternary operator …

    public String toString(boolean b) {
      return b
        ? "true"
        : "false";
    }

… the formatter converts it to …

    public String toString(boolean b) {
      return b ? "true" : "false";
    }

When I want to keep the line breaks, I can insert empty comments at the end of the line.

    public String toString(boolean b) {
      return b //
        ? "true" //
        : "false";
    }

The formatter converts this to:

    public String toString(boolean b) {
      return b //
      ? "true" //
          : "false";
    }

The question mark and the colon should be aligned in the same column.

Comment 2 Jay Arthanareeswaran

2015-02-10 02:02:10 EST

Thanks for the report, but we are not going to have the time to look at this any time soon. If anyone is willing to provide a patch, we can take a look at.

Comment 3 Mateusz Matela

2016-02-17 17:43:06 EST

This problem no longer occurs after the formatter redesign.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 303519 ***