Error on FORMAT FILE

[Treverr]

I have everything in stalled, but for some reason when I try to format anything it gives me this error:

Error On FORMAT FILE
/Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql /Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql

I checked and it looks like its there, and formatted. Permissions look okay, too.

Any ideas? I'm running macOS.

[mickeypearce]

Hi @Treverr .
So the temp file content is formatted (format_temp.sql) but your original file is not?
Can you try saving your original file before formatting maybe ?

[Treverr]

Hello,

Yes my original file is saved. I diff'ed the two files (original and format_temp.sql) and they appear to be the same.

This isn't working on my PL/SQLs but is working with standard SQLs. Is that to be expected? This seems to be happening on all PL/SQL files that are kinda complex.

Thank you!

[mickeypearce]

Could be a syntax issue. Take a look at #19 (comment)
I am not sure but maybe / at the end of file causes format error for example..

[Treverr]

Hi,

I am having the same issue with a very simple SQL:

-- need to delete from the db
DELETE FROM xxx WHERE xxx = xxx;

Gives me the same formatting error as before (sorry I had to mask my company stuff)

[mickeypearce]

Take a look at "Output" panel of VS Code in the oracle-format tab you should see original input and output of sqlcl command. Maybe you will find some useful info there... It could be that sqlcl version is having some problems.

[Treverr]

Here is what I see there:

"/Users/treverchambersewing/Downloads/sqlcl/bin/sql" /nolog @"/Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format.sql"

SQLcl: Release 20.2 Production on Fri Oct 23 13:28:30 2020

Copyright (c) 1982, 2020, Oracle.  All rights reserved.



SQL> format file "/Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql" "/Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql"
Error On FORMAT FILE /Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql /Users/treverchambersewing/.vscode/extensions/mp.vscode-oracle-format-0.1.5/format_temp.sql 
FORMAT
---------

FORMAT BUFFER - formats the script in the SQLcl Buffer
FORMAT RULES <filename> - Loads SQLDeveloper Formatter rules file to formatter.
FORMAT FILE <input_file> <output_file> 

Format used is default or for SQLcl can be chosen by setting an environmental variable
pointing to a SQLDeveloper export (.xml) of formatter options.
The variable is called SQLFORMATPATH
In SQLDeveloper the format options are the default chosen in the preferences.
SQL> exit

[mickeypearce]

No idea unfortunately. You could manually run sqlcl from the terminal to see if there is any difference and try new version of sqlcl (20.3) that was released recently.