spotless elicpse wtp format config file

Question

I'm using spotless to format code in my project. I've decided to use WTP plugin to format html, css and js in this projet.

There should be a config to select the way html is formated. eg. with space instead of tab.

https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/tree/main/plugin-gradle#eclipse-web-tools-platform

The file path given is .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.html.core.prefs.

But I have no clue where this file is. I tryed to install elicpse and find the given file, with no luck.

Answer 1

As mentiontioned by @nitind the file is in the workspace. The way i found it was to run the following commend.

find ~/ -name 'org.eclipse.wst.html.core.prefs'

Answer 2

Just FYI here's spotless-maven-plugin configuration (as specified in pom.xml) and the Eclipse preferences file I ended up using - I am using Netbeans as my development platform. I still haven't figured out if everything works as it should though. Because it seems that e.g. spotless' own <indent> configuration seems to need to be specified apart from eclipseWtp, because the latter doesn't do tab-to-spaces substitution exactly the way I expect it to do it.

...
<plugin>
    <groupId>com.diffplug.spotless</groupId>
    <artifactId>spotless-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.29.0</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>validate</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <formats>
           <format>
              <includes>
                 <include>**/*.html</include>
              </includes>
              <eclipseWtp>
                 <type>HTML</type>
                 <files>
                    <file>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/org.eclipse.wst.html.core.prefs</file>
                 </files>
              </eclipseWtp>
              <trimTrailingWhitespace/>
              <endWithNewline/>
              <indent>
                 <spaces>true</spaces>
                 <spacesPerTab>4</spacesPerTab>
              </indent>                        
           </format>
        </formats>                   
        <java>
           <toggleOffOn/>
           <importOrder/>
           <removeUnusedImports/>
            <indent>
                <spaces>true</spaces>
                <spacesPerTab>4</spacesPerTab>
            </indent>
           <trimTrailingWhitespace />
           <formatAnnotations/>                        
           <palantirJavaFormat></palantirJavaFormat>
        </java>                    
    </configuration>   
</plugin>
...

And here's contents of org.eclipse.wst.html.core.prefs file I have placed into aforementioned ${project.basedir}/src/main/resources folder (I did a rough search on the internet to find core and html specific content):

lineWidth=72
clearAllBlankLines=false
indentationChar=space
indentationSize=4
splitMultiAttrs=false
alignEndBracket=false
cleanupTagNameCase=0
cleanupAttrNameCase=0
insertRequiredAttrs=false
insertMissingTags=false
quoteAttrValues=true
formatSource=true
convertEOLCodes=false
inputCodeset=
outputCodeset=UTF-8
endOfLineCode=
tagNameCase=1
attrNameCase=1
defaultExtension=html
inlineElements=a,abbr,acronym,b,basefont,big,br,cite,em,font,i,img,input,label,li,q,s,select,small,span,strike,strong,sub,sup,td,th,title,u

attrDuplicate=2
attrInvalidName=2
attrInvalidValue=2
attrNameMismatch=2
attrNamesToIgnore=
attrUndefName=2
attrUndefValue=2
attrValueEqualsMissing=2
attrValueMismatch=1
attrValueUnclosed=2
cdataInvalidContent=2
cdataUnclosed=1
commentInvalidContent=2
commentUnclosed=1
docDoctypeUnclosed=1
docDuplicateTag=1
docInvalidChar=2
docInvalidContent=2
eclipse.preferences.version=1
elemCoexistence=2
elemDuplicate=2
elemEndInvalidCase=1
elemInvalidContent=2
elemInvalidDirective=1
elemInvalidEmptyTag=2
elemInvalidName=1
elemInvalidText=2
elemMissingEnd=2
elemMissingStart=2
elemStartInvalidCase=2
elemUnclosedEndTag=1
elemUnclosedStartTag=1
elemUnknownName=-1
elemUnnecessaryEnd=2
ignoreAttrNames=false
ignoreElementNames=false
piInvalidContent=2
piUnclosed=1
piUndefined=2
refInvalidContent=2
resourceNotFound=2