Eclipse getter/setter format

Question

Does anyone know of an Eclipse plug-in or method to get Eclipse to generate getter/setters on one line like this:

public String getAbc() { return abc; }

Instead of

public String getAbc() {
   return abc;
}

I'm on Eclipse v. 3.2.2.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't know how to make Eclipse generate them in the format you want, but you could do a search/replace using these regular expressions after the methods are generated:

Find:

(?m)((?:public |private |protected )?[\w$]+) (get|set)([\w$]+)\(([\w$]+ [\w$]+)?\) \{\s+(return [\w$]+;|this.[\w$]+ = [\w$]+;)\s+\}

Replace by:

$1 $2$3($4) { $5 }

This expression will transform the generated getters and setters to be one line. Don't worry about running it with a mixture of transformed and newly generated methods; it will work just fine.

Answer 2

Goto: Preferences > Java > Code Style > Code Templates / Formatter..
If it's at all possible to change this setting you'll find it there.

Answer 3

Java code formatting in Eclipse does not differentiate between getters/setters and any other methods in a class. So this cannot be done by built-in eclipse formatting.

You will need either to:

1. run a search/replace with the aforementioned regex
2. get en external plugin like PMD or CheckStyle and enforce a regex rule based on previous option

Answer 4

I'd like to have this also .

Answer 5

Go vote: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205973