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Reputation: 8746

How to expand folded package chain in Intellij IDEA?

Intellij IDEA automatically chain packages together if the intermediate ones are otherwise empty. It is a nice feature in general. However, sometimes you don't want them to be chained, especially when you are in the middle of creating new package structures for your new project. I might have come across the setting for disabling this feature for a certain package, but I can't find it where now. So, does anyone know how to control this feature? Thank you very much.

BTW, in case you need clarification, what I mean by package chaining is as follows. Suppose you have this package structure:

$ tree com
com
└── company
    └── project
        └── some
            └── feature

Since there are really nothing else inside the intermediate folders, Intellij IDEA will automatically display it like

com.company.project.some.feature

in the project explorer, which looks like the packages are chained together.

Upvotes: 173

Views: 80622

Answers (6)

Daniel Kaplan
Daniel Kaplan

Reputation: 67300

Click the meatball menu/kebab menu as highlighted by 1 to access the submenu highlighted by 2

Uncheck "Hide Empty Middle Packages" under the Project View settings dropdown:

Hide Empty Middle Packages

Upvotes: 311

Chetan Handa
Chetan Handa

Reputation: 330

In the latest version of IntelliJ 2024.2 click highlighted section below to expand

click here

Select appearance sub menu item.

Uncheck "Compact middle packages"

uncheck this

Upvotes: 0

Júlia Polbach
Júlia Polbach

Reputation: 11

As @Shreyash Choudhary said, uncheck Flatten Package in Project settings worked for me on v. 2021.3.2.

IntelliJ example

Upvotes: 1

Shreyash Choudhary
Shreyash Choudhary

Reputation: 11

Just simply uncheck flatten modules, flatten package on right-click on PACKAGE drop-down.

Upvotes: 1

Sonners
Sonners

Reputation: 51

Or you just can right-click on left-sided project tab and pick "Compact Middle Packages"

Upvotes: 5

Khojiakbar
Khojiakbar

Reputation: 579

As another solution of how to create another file in the intermediate package:

Use expanded hierarchy of packages on the top of the window as shown below As shown below

Upvotes: 29

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