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Fix missing entry for expandWildcardImports in Maven README #3012

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion plugin-gradle/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ spotless {
### expandWildcardImports

This step expands all wildcard imports to single class imports.
To do this, [JavaParser](https://javaparser.org/) is used to parse the complete sourcecode and resolve the full qualified name of all used classes and static methods.
To do this, [JavaParser](https://javaparser.org/) is used to parse the complete sourcecode and resolve the full qualified name of all used classes and static methods from the full classpath.

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Have extended this to also mention the classpath, because it seems fetching that (and processing it?) might also be expensive, see #2983.

But if you want I can omit this again.

This operation can be resource intensive when formatting many source files, so you may want to change to `forbidWildcardImports` when your codebase is cleaned and stable.

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Expand Up @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ any other maven phase (i.e. compile) then it can be configured as below;
</importOrder>

<removeUnusedImports /> <!-- self-explanatory -->
<forbidWildcardImports /> <!-- yell if any import ends with '*' -->
<forbidWildcardImports /> <!-- yell if any import ends with '*'; or use expandWildcardImports, see below -->
<forbidModuleImports /> <!-- yell if any module imports are found (Java 25+) -->

<formatAnnotations /> <!-- fixes formatting of type annotations, see below -->
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<forbidWildcardImports/>
```

### expandWildcardImports

This step expands all wildcard imports to single class imports.
To do this, [JavaParser](https://javaparser.org/) is used to parse the complete sourcecode and resolve the full qualified name of all used classes and static methods from the full classpath.
This operation can be resource intensive when formatting many source files, so you may want to change to `forbidWildcardImports` when your codebase is cleaned and stable.

```xml
<expandWildcardImports/>
```

### forbidModuleImports

```xml
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