Quick question: Does anyone know of a tool to expand star imports in Kotlin? (IntelliJ optimize impo...

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[JP Sugarbroad]

Quick question: Does anyone know of a tool to expand star imports in Kotlin? (IntelliJ optimize imports does not do it.)

[Joffrey]

> IntelliJ optimize imports does not do it
The formatter should, if you configure it not to use star imports at all

[JP Sugarbroad]

It doesn't.

[JP Sugarbroad]

If it's supposed to, where do I file a bug?

[Joffrey]

Ah sorry, not the formatter, but the optimize imports action should. I just tested it in IDEA and it works fine. What are your code style settings for Kotlin?

[JP Sugarbroad]

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[JP Sugarbroad]

If I comment out the star import, it generates non-star imports. But that doesn't always work because of ambiguity.

[JP Sugarbroad]

Is it maybe a K2 thing?

[Joffrey]

Strange. Which version of IJ are you using? In my case with IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3 EAP it seems to automatically change * imports to their explicit variant.

[JP Sugarbroad]

2024.2.1 (CE)

[Joffrey]

Is it maybe a K2 thing?

I have K2 mode enabled. Not sure if it will change something for you

[JP Sugarbroad]

Same. Very weird.

[Joffrey]

Then maybe open an issue on YouTrack, you'll probably get answers (or questions!) from the right people (although I have the JetBrains tag, I'm not part of the Kotlin team, I'm just a Kotlin user 😉 )

[JP Sugarbroad]

ok, ty 😄

[JP Sugarbroad]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-31340/Optimize-Imports-does-not-replace-star-imports 🤞

[okarm]

If you invoke Ctrl + Alt + Shift + L, it presents a dialog - see if you have "optimize imports" checked there. If not, try that. You probably don't have that checked, so the autoformatter doesn't touch existing imports.

[JP Sugarbroad]

It is checked.

[okarm]

One other suggestion that comes to mind is using .editorconfig file with the following options:

[*.kt]
ij_kotlin_name_count_to_use_star_import = 99
ij_kotlin_name_count_to_use_star_import_for_members = 99

[JP Sugarbroad]

Did that, doesn't work.

[JP Sugarbroad]

It is definitely a bug of some kind.