what should a string template containing JSON look like? ``` val request = """ ...

# ktlint

[Eric]

what should a string template containing JSON look like?

val request =
            """
                {
                    "fileName" : "foo.pdf",
                    "contentLength" : 1234,
                    "contentType" : "application/pdf"
                }
            """.trimIndent()

detekt (using ktlint) is complaining about every possible way I can think of to format that block

[Paul Dingemans]

Remove the indent inside the raw literal.

val foo =
    """
    Foo
    """.trimIndent()

[Eric]

yeah, but with JSON, it doesn't like that

[Eric]

val request =
            """
            {
                "fileName" : "foo.pdf",
                "contentLength" : 1234,
                "contentType" : "application/pdf"
            }
            """.trimIndent()

but maybe that's a detekt setting... checking

[Paul Dingemans]

I don't know about detekt but this is a format that Ktlint accepts depending on its code style.

[Eric]

yeah, the reality is that the detekt rule and ktlint rule conflict with each other

[Paul Dingemans]

Then either disable the detekt rule or ktlint's string-temlate-indent rule

[Eric]

yeah, i think i'll disable detekt's rule. thanks. or just suppress it for now

[Brais Gabin]

That's not ktlint related. That's full detekt. It wants 4 more spaces for each line.

[Eric]

well... i can format it multiple ways. one ktlint complains, the other detekt complains

[ephemient]

I would not use both detekt-formatting and ktlint at the same time

[Atul Gupta]

@Brais Gabin we should give option for indentation in detekt rule? What’s your thoughts?

[Brais Gabin]

I don't think so. I think that both tools should align. Which one? No idea. We should check if there is any documentation that promotes one of them.

[Atul Gupta]

Currently they don’t provide it and in their docs they are using different formatting 😅

[Paul Dingemans]

Indeed there is no strict rule in the guidelines about whether raw string literals should have an inner indentation. So that is the reason that the ktlint rule is only enabled by default when using the new ktlint_official code style or whenever enabled explicitly.