Nothing is "wrong with it" -- it's a little esoteric and very tied to
the Spotless tool as custom written software.
(https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/blob/main/lib/src/main/java/com/diffplug/spotless/java/ImportSorter.java)
My discussion is centered around eventual migration to probably
tree-wide formatting which a good first step is adopting import
sorting from a Java formatter (in this case google-java-format).
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi Farid
>
> I'm curious, what is the problem with the current import order?
>
> Best,
> Chia-Ping
>
> Farid Zakaria <fzaka...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年2月21日 週五 上午3:46寫道：
>
> > Hi Kafka developers,
> >
> > I've seen some previous discussions in the past about "adopting
> > formatting" for the Kafka codebase a la google-java-format.
> >
> > While such a discussion may be ongoing and require further iterations;
> > I was wondering if we could start somewhere smaller.
> >
> > google-java-format has the ability to *solely* sort imports.
> > This is the default implementation of Spotless when not given any
> > configuration.
> > (Otherwise it defaults to some custom Java code within the plugin that
> > was inspired by an Eclipse plugin)
> >
> > I'd like to propose changing the spotless configuration to have no
> > setup and thus leverage google-java-format; *solely* to sort imports.
> >
> > This would deviate from the current import order of:
> > importOrder('kafka', 'org.apache.kafka', 'com', 'net', 'org', 'java',
> > 'javax', '', '\\#')
> >
> > Please let me know your thoughts.
> >
