How can I solve the maven-formatter-plugin problem?… here is a solution to the problem.
How can I solve the maven-formatter-plugin problem?
I’m having some issues building projects on a Windows system. My project uses formatter-maven-plugin with a target of “validation”. Before pushing the project in GitHub, I formatted it and pushed it. After that, I clone it to my Windows computer and tried “mvn clean install”, but I get:
Failed to execute goal net.revelc.code.formatter:formatter-maven-plugin:2.9.0:validate (default) on project application: File 'C: \Users\AUser\Desktop\demo\application\src\main\java\com\myapp\Application.java' has not been previously formatted. Please format file and commit before running validation!
This problem does not exist in Linux. Why is that? I did format it before inserting it into Git. Why is there no problem on Linux? Change the goal of the format I can’t.
<plugin>
<groupId>net.revelc.code.formatter</groupId>
<artifactId>formatter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>validate</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<configFile>${project.basedir}/.. /eclipse/eclipse-formatter.xml</configFile>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Solution
Based on official usage documentation:
Run the plug-in using the format target.
mvn formatter:format
After doing this once, you should be able to function normally.