How to keep indentation hierarchies in fluent method chains on automatic formatting

Question

Say you have fluent method chains with meaningful indentations like:

    http
        .authorizeRequests()
            .antMatchers("/", "/home").permitAll()
            .anyRequest().authenticated()
            .and()
        .formLogin()
            .loginPage("/login")
            .permitAll()
            .and()
        .logout()
            .permitAll();

Auto formatting in Eclipse creates the following, if you have "Never join already wrapped lines" active:

    http
            .authorizeRequests()
            .antMatchers("/", "/home").permitAll()
            .anyRequest().authenticated()
            .and()
            .formLogin()
            .loginPage("/login")
            .permitAll()
            .and()
            .logout()
            .permitAll();

Because of that you are forced to decide between autoformatting a file containing fluent code and losing the meaningful indention hierarchy or giving up on automatic formatting...

I'd need the option "don't change relative indentation for chained method calls".

Is there a solution for this?

What you want is to locally-disable the Eclipse formatter. This is answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1820908/1743880 — Tunaki, Sep 16 '15 at 20:05
That's a nice work around. Would be really nice if you didn't need the ugly comments though — ASA, Sep 16 '15 at 20:07
@formatter:off/on also works in Intellij. I agree it's ugly, but at least it's somewhat standard. — Carl Manaster, Sep 17 '15 at 01:01

How to keep indentation hierarchies in fluent method chains on automatic formatting

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