Javaru

Javaru

Kotlin Coroutine Confidence: Add formatter off/on comments (pg 162)

As a minor suggestion, in timers/v19/src/main/kotlin/com/example/timers/TimerApplication.kt, you might want to consider adding // @formatter:off and (optionally) // @formatter:on comments:

val timer = java.util.Timer()

// @formatter:off
fun main() {                               /* Secret hidden brackets */
  println("3…")
  timer.schedule(1000)                         {
  println("2…")
  timer.schedule(1000)                         {
  println("1…")
  timer.schedule(1000)                         {
  println("Liftoff!")
  timer.cancel()                               } } }
}
// @formatter:on

While this appears fine in the book, and should appear as desired in the code in someone’s IDE, there is the possibility that someone might reformat the source code at some point, such as when first starting out. (I have been known to do that sometimes.) In such a case, the non-standard formatting being used in this example would be lost. You could even just put the // @formatter:off comment before the import statement so it is out of the way, and wouldn’t show in the book’s snippet.

Of course this assumes the user has the “Turn formatter on/off with markers in code comments” option enabled. (IntelliJ IDEA documentation). And to be honest, I can’t remember what the default is. You could potentially add a .editorconfig file to the root of the downloaded source with this enabled:

ij_formatter_off_tag = @formatter:off
ij_formatter_on_tag = @formatter:on
ij_formatter_tags_enabled = true

The EditorConfig plugin is a bundled plugin, and so this file will take effect.

If you do add the .editorconfig file, you may also want to include the indenting settings since the 2-space indent being used may conflict with a user’s more typical 4-space default:

[*]
indent_size = 2
indent_style = space
tab_width = 2
ij_formatter_off_tag = @formatter:off
ij_formatter_on_tag = @formatter:on
ij_formatter_tags_enabled = true

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sam-cooper

sam-cooper

Author of Kotlin Coroutine Confidence

Good point, I understand why you bring it up! I’m the same, I’m constantly running the autoformatter on autopilot using keyboard-shortcut muscle memory.

Even though running this code example in the IDE isn’t too important—since the visual appearance of the source code is more important than what it actually does—I can see why testing it out would still be instructive. Including the // @formatter:off comment will make that easier for many people, and won’t do any harm for the rest, so I’ll certainly consider it—along with a note in the text. I’ll stop short of the editorconfig step, though. Anyone who has changed the settings away from their defaults is probably already aware, as you are, of how to fix the problem for themselves.

Thank you for the detailed suggestion!

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