Is there a ktlint directive to force multi-line strings to use `"""` rather than a bunch of concaten...

# ktlint

[Larry Garfield]

Is there a ktlint directive to force multi-line strings to use """ rather than a bunch of concatenated (+) strings? A recent upgrade inadvertently converted… all of our queries in JPA repositories to the latter, which has made them substantially more ugly and hard to manage. I want to blanket-undo that damage.

[jlleitschuh]

Git commit revert? Or try an OpenRewrite recipe

[Paul Dingemans]

Ktlint does not support this. But you can use the IDEA inspection below:

[Atul Gupta]

You can also see https://detekt.dev/docs/rules/style/#stringshouldberawstring

[Larry Garfield]

Unfortunately it cannot be git reverted at this point. (It was one huge upgrade PR from our great-grand-boss Director-level that got merged prematurely, but upgraded Kotlin, Spring, and KTlint without really any meaningful validation. We’ve spent the last week undoing the damage and aren’t done yet.)

[Larry Garfield]

@Paul Dingemans Hm, I appear to have that set already in the IDE.

[Larry Garfield]

What’s OpenRewrite?

[Paul Dingemans]

You can just run the inspection in the IDEA again

[Larry Garfield]

Hm. Looks like that’s converting it to one very long line. If it’s already a “”" string, would ktlint multi-line that without breaking it up?

[Larry Garfield]

I’m not sure how to run that inspection over the whole code base… I see how to do it in each case individually.

[Larry Garfield]

Hm, no, it doesn’t. Even if I set a line length, it says it cannot reformat it. Interesting…

[Paul Dingemans]

the max line length rule can indeed not wrap strings automatically.

[Paul Dingemans]

There is no algorithm that would work well.

[Larry Garfield]

Drat. Looks like this is going to require manual work to clean up no matter what.