[GitHub] [fineract] thesmallstar commented on pull request #943: FINERACT-1006 Added spotless to auto format source code

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thesmallstar commented on pull request #943:
URL: https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/943#issuecomment-636907089


   Yes, I will update this.
   From what I have understood until now, Spotless and Checkstyles have different approaches. Spotless(Based on the configuration) is more about code formatting and checkstyle is a little bit more intelligent than just code formatting(Not a very good explanation). 
   
   Keeping both seems a good idea, there are a few checks like naming conventions which cannot be handled by spotless whereas some like indentation/whitespace it would be a really good idea to let spotless take "more" care of it since adding those spaces myself after writing some code would be really troublesome, having said that for a few checks like "space" where spotless and checkstyle agree on everything(either both pass or both fail) we can add a note in check style error message to use spotless to fix this(makes sense?) and keep them both place. Only for a few checks, where they won't agree but it would be a really nice idea to have it automated(like indentation), we can let only spotless handle it. 
   
   This is what I think would be a good approach if it sounds good to you, should I proceed and add it to readme?
   
   


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