| Summary: | Saving JSON file deletes lines | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Nighteyes <mk_spamguard> |
| Component: | application | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | waqar.17a |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 25.04.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | The json file in question. | ||
Unable to reproduce.
> while I have this disabled in my settings
Where in the settings?
Which plugins do you have enabled?
Are you using "Formatting" plugin?
I only have the default plugins active including the LSP Client which has a setting Format on typing and Format on save among others. The full list of plugins I have active is: Document Switcher Document Tree External Tools Formatting LSP Client Project Plugin Search & Replace Terminal Text Filter To be honest I did not really know about the plugins yet. I disabled them all, and enabled one by one. The culprit is indeed the formatting plugin. Disabling the formatting plugin removes the weird behaviour that lines get deleted. In the formatting plugin settings, do you have the following line? "formatterForJson": "jq", or is it something else? If its set to "jq" then can you run the following command and check if the json lines get deleted? cat JSON_FILE.json | jq . --indent 4 -M That indeed produces the same output. It might be related to the fact that there is a duplicate entry in the json file at the same level? That might not be the nicest form of json, but I would not expect it to be automatically deleted without warning. I'd suggest you take this issue up with the "jq" team. Kate just invokes "jq" to do the formatting. On my end with the following jq version I dont see any deleted lines: jq --version jq-1.7.1 JQ lives here: https://github.com/jqlang/jq --- You can use "prettier" or "clang-format" for formatting json. Search for "Formatting" in the KDE help center to learn more about the plugin. A simple example of how you can modify the settings, put the following in "User Settings" tab: { "formatOnSave": true, "formatterForJson": "prettier", "jq": { "formatOnSave": false } } first line enables formatOnSave. second line changes the json formatter to prettier. third line disables "formatOnSave" just for jq Thanks for the info, i'll do that. The version of jq I'm running is 1.8.0. |
Created attachment 182230 [details] The json file in question. SUMMARY When saving this specific json file a reformat is triggered (while I have this disabled in my settings) and a whole entry is removed. With this bug I can't rely on Kate for any json work. I tried restarting the editor, thinking it might be a random bug. I also tried moving the file (outside the git repo) on disk and I keep getting the same result. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open the json file. 2. Hit "control + s" or click the save button. 3. Watch the text disappear. OBSERVED RESULT Text just disappears, I'm glad I had the file in git. EXPECTED RESULT No reformatting and lines deleted with a json file on disk. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.14.10-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor Memory: 62.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX