Description Alexander Ryan 2014-10-07 22:08:21 EDT

See the following unresolved issue on stack overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11516623/stop-code-format-from-removing-whitespaces-in-eclipse


To reproduce
Add these local variables ...
        int ID         = 0;
        int OBJECT_ID  = 1;
        int SESSION_ID = 2;

Select to format.
Notice that eclipse changes the formatting and there does not appear to be an option to prevent this from happening.

        int ID = 0;
        int OBJECT_ID = 1;
        int SESSION_ID = 2;



A mechanism is provided to align variable declarations in columns, but this is restricted to class variables.

"Preferences: 
Java > Code Style > Formatter:
Indentation > Align class fields in columns"

There does not appear to be an option for local variables.

So my carefully formatted code gets wiped out whenever the the formatter is run.