Online Apex Formatter

The online apex formatter provides language-aware reformatting for Apex and other Java‑like languages. It ingests source text, tokenizes it, and applies a consistent style: normalized indentation, uniform brace placement, and standard line wrapping. It preserves comments and string literals, preventing alteration of meaningful text during reflow. Designed for Salesforce developers, administrators, and code reviewers, it enables predictable, auditable changes across teams and repositories. By enforcing a single, explicit set of formatting rules, it reduces aesthetic drift, streamlines code reviews, and accelerates onboarding of new contributors. The formatter is deterministic, so identical input yields identical output across runs, supporting CI workflows and peer reviews.
Conceptually, formatting operates in three stages: parse, normalize, and emit. Parse analyzes tokens and a lightweight structural representation without executing code. Normalize applies rules selected by the user or preset: indentation size (2 or 4 spaces), wrap length, and brace placement. Emit renders the final text, preserving identifiers, comments, and string literals while aligning blocks and spacing. The approach emphasizes safety: no semantic changes occur, only layout, and the output is suitable for diffs, pulls, and archival.
Common use cases include standardizing Apex code before commits, harmonizing code written by distributed teams, and preparing files for migrations or code reviews. The tool supports single snippets or batch processing via file streams, and it can be integrated into build pipelines with minimal configuration. Users gain consistent formatting, reduced review time, and clearer histories, which improves maintainability and team productivity across Salesforce projects and Java-like codebases.