Standalone Block opening/closing brace needs Linebreak and block statements needs indentation

[Vasanthi-S]

Hi,

Summary of issue: Standalone block not formatted properly, missing line-breaks and indentations, Creates a erroneous code.

When I have a standalone block with a set of statements, It would be great if it formatted with a line-break after/before block opening/closing brace. Also the statements inside the block needs one-level indentation for readability. Because of the missing line-break, formatter creates a erroneous code output.

Input:

function a() { var arr2 = [] }
var x = 1
{
var x = 2
console.log(x) }

Actual output: - formatter creates errorenous code

function a() {
  var arr2 = []
}
var x = 1 {        
var x = 2
console.log(x)   }

After I set the property indent.BlockStatement=1,I get the indentation working (as shown below) With block indentation working:

function a() {
    var arr2 = []
}
var x = 1 {
  var x = 2                  // indented correctly
  console.log(x)   }         // indented correctly

So in order to get the line-break working, I tried setting lineBreak.before.BlockStatement=1 and lineBreak.after.BlockStatement=1. But do not see linebreaks appearing for the standalone blocks.

EDIT: @millermedeiros inlined the gist to make it easier to understand.

[millermedeiros]

we currently don't handle BlockStatement properly since it ends up being part of many other constructs (like FunctionDeclaration.body):

function foo() {
  // this is also a BlockStatement!
}

To handle it properly we would need to check if the parent node is not a function/do/while/arrowFunction/for/forOf before we add the indent or line breaks.

It is doable (should not be that hard) and is actually something that we need to address, thanks for reporting it!

[Vasanthi-S]

Thanks for the update. Would be great to know an approximate timeline when this could be fixed.