Formatting big string templates

[chrihunstad]

In our projects we create fairly big string templates to generate our SQL queries. However, autoformatting these strings rarely end up looking good.

Expected Behavior

    fun indentTest(ids: List<String>?) = """
        SELECT * foo
        FROM bar
        WHERE
          ${when (ids) {
            null -> "TRUE"
            emptyList<String>() -> "FALSE"
            else -> "some_ids IN (:doc_ids)"
          }}
    """.trimIndent()

Observed Behavior

    fun indentTest(ids: List<String>?) = """
        SELECT * foo
        FROM bar
        WHERE
          ${
        when (ids) {
            null -> "TRUE"
            emptyList<String>() -> "FALSE"
            else -> "some_ids IN (:doc_ids)"
        }
    }
    """.trimIndent()

Your Environment

• Version of ktlint used: 0.42.1

[chrihunstad]

Right now I am disabling the indent rule for all our files containing SQL-queries. Is there any way to just ignore multiline strings in .editorconfig instead?

[paul-dingemans]

There is no way to disable indentations of the multiline strings only. The problem seems to be identical to a situation which I had myself a few weeks ago. A complex ${...} like your example gets additional newline while this does not happen a simple reference of a object property. I am not sure whether that is a regression bug or something which never has been implemented.

[paul-dingemans]

This issue will be resolved when this #1052 is merged.