Code Style check

[martinezmatias]

Does Repairnator follow a code style?

Would be necessary to automatically check the style before merging?

[monperrus]

It did, but bot anymore.

Since Repairnator is a repair tool, my dream is to activate a style repair directly (à la Styler or Restyled), without going through the old-school check-only step.

[martinezmatias]

Since Repairnator is a repair tool, my dream is to activate a style repair directly (à la Styler or Restyled), without going through the old-school check-only step.

Perfect.

[ohbus]

How about implementing the spotless plugin for maven?

I would be happy to help you implement this and move forward with its integration if you want.

We can do this by a simple GitHub Action.

[monperrus]

Thanks for the proposal. Could you elaborate on what spotless would do?

[ohbus]

Spotless will do code style just like checkstyle during maven build, using spotless:check.

What it can also achieve is that apply the necessary changes in code style for it to be compliant to using spotless:apply

[monperrus]

Could we have spotless:apply as part of CI? (for instance as an automated PR)

[ohbus]

We can extend the functionality using GitHub Actions to automate any validations check if there are any!