Format json in line

[freewind]

At present, jsbeautify will format json into multi-lines. For example:

var items = nativeUsers.find({ email: '[email protected]' }, _).toArray(_);

will be formatted as:

var items = nativeUsers.find({
    email: '[email protected]'
}, _).toArray(_);

But I think it's kept inline will be better for this code.

Will jsbeautify handle it like this:

1. if { is at the line end, it will be formatted into multi-lines:

   var items = nativeUsers.find({
                      email: '[email protected]' }, _).toArray(_);
   

2. if not, format them inline

So, we can control if the json be formatted inline or multiline

[einars]

1. if { is at the line end, it will be formatted into multi-lines:
2. if not, format them inline

That's a good idea, but, sadly, this wouldn't work good at all. The
beautifier is used extremely often to unpack packed/compressed/minified
scripts, and this would mean that for packed scripts/jsons/etc, even
the large objects are always formatted inline.

The proper solution, I guess, would be seeing physically how many items
are there inside the object, and deciding the formatting on that, but I
don't see how to do that nicely in the current implementation :(

Einar.

[freewind]

At least we can provide such a configuration, and by default it's disabled, so it won't change the behavior of current.

But if I enable it, it will work as I described above.

I think it's very useful when I use jsbeautifier as my javascript formatter when coding -- which I have fully control of my code.

[bitwiseman]

I agree there are scenarios where this would be nice, but to handle them right (even in a configuration only case) would require significant work - see #200 for related discussion. If you can find a way to do it and add the tests, submit a pull request and we can discuss.