{"ref":"content:051-abap-cleaner-in-vs-code-installation-and-guide","page":"/content/051-abap-cleaner-in-vs-code-installation-and-guide","json":"/content/051-abap-cleaner-in-vs-code-installation-and-guide.json","generated":"2026-10-30","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"051-abap-cleaner-in-vs-code-installation-and-guide","title":"051: ABAP Cleaner in VS Code - Installation and Guide","url":"https://software-heroes.com/en/blog/script-abap-cleaner-in-vs-code-installation-and-guide","content_type":"blog","published_on":"source:software-heroes","explains":["capability:abap-clean-code"],"summary":"Walks through installing ABAP Cleaner inside [ABAP Development Tools for VS Code](artifact:sap-adt-vscode) and setting it as the default formatter in place of ADT's Pretty Printer, then using its interactive rule view to compare unformatted and cleaned code and configure which rules run, at class, component or method scope. A worked example applies [Clean ABAP](artifact:sap-styleguides-clean-abap) rules to one method: removing a redundant `me->` self-reference and an unneeded EXPORTING keyword, and restructuring a CHECK statement that the styleguide disallows once other statements precede it.","short":"Installing ABAP Cleaner in ADT for VS Code as default formatter","author":"Björn S.","published":"2026-08-17","provenance":{"discovered_via":[{"source":"source:software-heroes"}],"first_seen":"2026-09-18"},"drafted_with_ai":true},"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Checked against the source","tier":"unknown","evidence":"nobody has checked it"},{"label":"Source reachable","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Age","tier":"good","evidence":"published 2 months ago"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Version","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no version declared"},{"label":"Moved since?","tier":"good","evidence":"no recorded change after 2026-08-17"},{"label":"Findings","tier":"good","evidence":"none flagged"}],"reach":[{"value":null,"unit":"views"},{"value":null,"unit":"comments"},{"value":null,"unit":"likes"}]},"signals":null,"series":null,"edges":{"authors":[]}}