Dart/Flutter prevent formatter from squashing method calls to one line

Question

my formatter keeps doing such a thing. When I try to place method calls in separate lines. For example I have such a code:

main() {
  SomeObject()
    .someMethod()
    .someMethodWithArgument('someArgument')
    .someMethodWithArgument('someOtherArgument');
}

After hitting quick format, I get something like that:

main() {
  SomeObject().someMethod().someMethodWithArgument('someArgument')
    .someMethodWithArgument('someOtherArgument');
}

It drives me crazy and it is totally unreadable in my opinion. I played around with format settings in Android Studio preferences but I cannot find anything that would fix this particular formatting issue.

Answer 1

There's no way to configure dartfmt by design. However, you can technically force it to match the formatting you have using comments on each line:

main() {
  SomeObject() //
    .someMethod() //
    .someMethodWithArgument('someArgument') //
    .someMethodWithArgument('someOtherArgument');
}

It's obviously not ideal, and won't be consistent with other Dart code in the ecosystem, but if the formatting bothers you that much it's the only option.