{"id":1826,"date":"2009-04-07T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/04\/netbeans-autoformatting\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T07:23:02","slug":"netbeans-autoformatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"NetBeans’ Auto-formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've endeavoured to rely on NetBeans' auto-formatting feature before now, but I've never been able to configure it quite to my tastes. In particular I had struggled to get rules for braces and line wrapping setup how I wanted for Java, with them almost always on a new line. I'm not sure whether I had simply failed to find the right options or if they're new in 6.5.1 or another recent release.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

It's perfect for cleaning up code that you're copying and pasting from the web, taking the labour out of it. All I need now in NetBeans is a less tedious way of generating getters and setters that requires less mouse clicks, remembers your last preferences (put at end of file, no comments) and can have m_ prefix on the vars but not the accessor method names.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

That said, better still would be for Java to grow up a bit and gain a better way to do boiler plate accessors. Which is better:<\/div>\n

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Java:<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
public int getFoo()<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
{<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
  return m_foo;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
}<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
public void setFoo(value)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
{<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
  m_foo = value;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
}<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
public String getBar()<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
{<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
  return m_bar;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
}<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
public void setBar(value)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
{<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
  m_bar = value;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
}<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Ruby:<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

attr_accessor :foo, :bar<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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