Formatting ignoring the code-formatter.xml file

[abique]

Relevance Confirmation

• I confirmed that this is not an issue with the Eclipse JDT Language Server itself

What happened?

                     "format": {
                        "enabled": true,
                        "settings": {
                           "url": "file://$ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT/code-formatting.xml",
                        },
                        "onType": { "enabled": false },
                     },

Is not honored at all.

I also have:

      "Java": {
         "auto_indent_on_paste": false,
         "format_on_save": "off",
         "tab_size": 3,
         "formatter": "language_server",
      },

What did you expect to happen?

I expect zed to format using jdtls which itself should use code-formatting.xml.

Environment

Zed: 1.0.1
Platform: Archlinux
Java: 26.0.1

[tartarughina]

The issue is likely related to $ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT. It is not getting resolved.
For reference, my uri entry uses ~/.config/jdtls/palantir_java_jdtls.xml and the rules there defined are respected.

[abique]

How to reference a file that is inside the project directory?

By the way I've set an absolute path as well (I've tried everything...) and it never worked.

[abique]

Ah, actually if I do a copy of my format file in ~/.config/jdtls/ then it works...
So I probably did some mistake, yet it'd be better if the format file could be loaded from the project directory itself. 🙏

[tartarughina]

You can have project settings in a .zed directory on each of your projects, the downside though is that you would have to repeat the same configs with just a different path for the formatter.

Once the zed_extension_api offers the support for custom json schemas, should be relatively soon, my plan is to create an ad-hoc component that is capable of better handling initialization options. One of this additional features would be ENV var replacement as you are suggesting