Inconsistent/Incorrect indentation for Java `Record` object

[Zhenye-Na]

What happened?

I have configured 4 spaces for my java project, but after the formatting, the java file of multiple Record is reindented to 8 spaces

I have attached an example of formatted class. I used numbers to represent spaces for the first member variable

public record XXXXX(

12345678@NonNull List<XXXX> XXXXX,

        @NonNull String XXXX,

        @NonNull X X) {}

What did you want to happen?

Record class should also be 4 spaces

[iamdanfox]

to the best of my knowledge, palantir-java-format does not have a config point to allow you to control how many spaces you want to appear. (See the current formatter CLI options).

This is an intentional design decision of the project, because we were really trying to drive homogeneity across hundreds of java projects and specifically wanted to:

• reduce 'nit' comments in code reviews, allowing engineers to focus on the important logic rather than bikeshedding about whitespace
• increased consistency across all repos, so contributing to other projects feels familiar

See more about this intention in the README: https://github.com/palantir/palantir-java-format?tab=readme-ov-file#upsides-of-automatic-formatting

[Zhenye-Na]

Hello @iamdanfox

Thanks for the reply. I understood the pros and cons, thats the reason why we prefer palantir formatter to google style.

But I am not sure if my question is answered, are you saying that the issue I mentioned above is by design, which makes Record class's indentation to be 8 spaces?

Thanks

[iamdanfox]

At the moment, that is palantir-java-format's behaviour when it wraps arguments to a record constructor.