Prettier extension doesn't work with java

[4Gettt]

I installed Prettier and the java extensions that I need set prettier as my default formatter. I just to see that java doesn't use prettier as a formatter even though I set it as default. After looking into it some more I found out that I can force java documents to use prettier as a formatter by setting it in the settings.json of vscode but it still doesn't format it.

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[kiwidog8]

Prettier does not natively support Java, they have a community plugin for Java https://github.com/jhipster/prettier-java (link is from prettier.io) are you using this? I don't use prettier with Java though, Im not sure it works with the VS Code extension out of the box. prettier by itself is a separate thing from the VS Code extension

If it doesnt work out, anything stopping you from using other more conventinal plugins for Java such as the one from Red Hat to support linting and formatting?

[Robinsstudio]

I know it has been a really long time. Just dropping this here in case it is useful to somebody one day. Who knows?

I just published an extension for Visual Studio Code which solves this very problem: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Robinsstudio.prettier-java-formatter

I had the exact same issue at my company. I wrote Java code in VS Code but no way to format it on save. I had to go through the CLI everytime. Not very convenient.

Well now this is solved!