No format for pom.xml in the Maven POM editor

[foal]

Describe the bug
There is no option to format pom.xml in the Maven POM editor.
There is no Source menu with Format option, Ctrl+Shift+F does nothing.
Context menu contains Source -> Format Ctrl+Shift+F , but selection of this command also does nothing.

Spring Tool Suite 4

Version: 4.27.0.RELEASE
Build Id: 202411281622
Revision: a0cb489
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce

1. Open pom.xml in Maven POM editor
2. Use Ctrl+Shift+F to format or select from context menu Source ->Format
3. XML still unformatted

In the XML editor the same file is formatted without any issues.

[martinlippert]

@foal Thanks for reporting, let's see if we can get to the bottom of this. So far I failed to reproduce this, installing a fresh Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.27.0, starting it with an empty new workspace, creating a Rest Service guide project, opening the pom.xml file in the POM file editor, for Format action shows up in the menu and hitting the corresponding keyboard shortcut (on my macOS machine, it is Cmd-Shift-F) seems to work just fine.

So we need to figure out what is different on your end that causes the Format action to disappear. Do you have additional plugins installed? If yes, can you try to reproduce this with a fresh Spring Tools for Eclipse installation? Another angle could be to install a plain Eclipse 2024-12 JEE package to see if that works on your machine.

[anatoly-spb]

I confirm the problem. I have did the following:

1. download fresh Spring Tool Suite 4.27 for Windows x86_64 from https://spring.io/tools:

Spring Tool Suite 4 

Version: 4.27.0.RELEASE
Build Id: 202411281622
Revision: a0cb489d5daf268d32d7327495fe28f3d12212b3

2. create fresh workspace with default options
3. create maven project with simple project template
4. unformat pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>test</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>test</name>
<description>test</description>
</project>

5. press Ctrl+Shift+F and source/format and my pom in Maven POM Editor is still unchanged, is still unformatted

Here is my full configuration https://pastebin.com/QqMBfjBs

[foal]

For 4.28 on Windows - the same issue.

1. Download
2. Unpack
3. Run as is without any changes with workspace in new folder
4. Import Maven project
5. Try to format pom.xml with: Ctrl+Shift+F - no works, context menu on editor - no works, context menu in Package explorer - no works

[BoykoAlex]

Do you have XML language server enabled?

[foal]

If it is enabled by default - yes. As I said I do not change nothing, just unpack, run import project and try to format pom.xml

[foal]

I have checked - yes, it is enabled

[martinlippert]

@anatoly-spb @foal Can you try to reproduce this with a plain Eclipse JEE 2024-12 installation from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

(Since I can't reproduce this locally, I am trying to identify where the problem might be coming from, therefore the various checks to see where the root cause might be)

[anatoly-spb]

@martinlippert Thank you for your time. I have downloaded https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/2024-12/R/eclipse-java-2024-12-R-win32-x86_64.zip&mirror_id=1285 and there is no problem with formatting pom, it works as expected:

1. download fresh eclipse for java developers
2. create fresh workspace
3. create simple maven project
4. open pom with Maven POM Editor
5. unformat pom.xml
6. Ctrl+Shift+F formats my pom as expected

[foal]

@martinlippert, yes, I can confirm in eclipse-jee-2024-12-R-win32-x86_64.zip the XML formatting on pom.xml works too from the box.

[anatoly-spb]

I try to compare Spring Tool Suite 4.28.0.RELEASE with eclipse-jee-2024-12-R-win32-x86_64.zip. There are several remarks:

1. Eclipse JEE uses Temurin-21.0.5+11, STD uses Temurin-21.0.6+7
2. I start STS and Eclipse JEE with the -consoleLog -debug command line options. When open pom.xml in Eclipse JEE there are messages from org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml in console log:

!MESSAGE Warning: The environment variable HOME is not set. The following directory will be used to store the Git
user global configuration and to define the default location to store repositories: 'C:\Users\stranger'. If this is
not correct please set the HOME environment variable and restart Eclipse. Otherwise Git for Windows and
EGit might behave differently since they see different configuration options.
This warning can be switched off on the Team > Git > Confirmations and Warnings preference page.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:10.981
!MESSAGE The given URI https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/application-client_9.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:10.984
!MESSAGE The given URI https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/jobXML_2_0.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:10.987
!MESSAGE The given URI https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/beans_3_0.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:10.991
!MESSAGE The given URI https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jaxb/bindingschema_3_0.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:11.004
!MESSAGE The given URI https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/validation/validation-configuration-3.0.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml 2 0 2025-02-06 11:52:11.010
!MESSAGE The given URI http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_1.xsd from org.eclipse.jst.standard.schemas could not be resolved for local access

STS outputs only the following without messages from org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.egit.ui 2 0 2025-02-06 11:47:21.608
!MESSAGE Warning: The environment variable HOME is not set. The following directory will be used to store the Git
user global configuration and to define the default location to store repositories: 'C:\Users\stranger'. If this is
not correct please set the HOME environment variable and restart Eclipse. Otherwise Git for Windows and
EGit might behave differently since they see different configuration options.
This warning can be switched off on the Team > Git > Confirmations and Warnings preference page.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.jface 2 0 2025-02-06 11:53:00.735
!MESSAGE Keybinding conflicts occurred.  They may interfere with normal accelerator operation.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.jface 2 0 2025-02-06 11:53:00.736
!MESSAGE A conflict occurred for CTRL+SHIFT+T:
Binding(CTRL+SHIFT+T,
        ParameterizedCommand(Command(org.eclipse.jdt.ui.navigate.open.type,Open Type,
                Open a type in a Java editor,
                Category(org.eclipse.ui.category.navigate,Navigate,null,true),
                WorkbenchHandlerServiceHandler("org.eclipse.jdt.ui.navigate.open.type"),
                ,,true),null),
        org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration,
        org.eclipse.ui.contexts.window,,,system)
Binding(CTRL+SHIFT+T,
        ParameterizedCommand(Command(org.eclipse.lsp4e.symbolInWorkspace,Go to Symbol in Workspace,
                ,
                Category(org.eclipse.lsp4e.category,Language Servers,null,true),
                WorkbenchHandlerServiceHandler("org.eclipse.lsp4e.symbolInWorkspace"),
                ,,true),null),
        org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration,
        org.eclipse.ui.contexts.window,,,system)

May be it will be helpfull.