How do I use beautify in Ace Editor?

Question

I've found the beautify extension in Ace editor but I don't see any examples of how to use it. Here's what I have so far:

var beautiful = ace.require("ace/ext/beautify");
beautiful.beautify();

but I get the error:

Result of expression 'e' [undefined] is not an object.

Answer 1

It looks like this works:

var beautify = ace.require("ace/ext/beautify"); // get reference to extension
var editor = ace.edit("editor"); // get reference to editor
    beautify.beautify(editor.session);

It requires that you pass in the Ace Editor session as the first parameter. In my original question, I did not pass in any variables and that was throwing an error.

Note: It did not work well which was mentioned on the extensions release notes. It was not working well enough to use.

Answer 2

I didn't get it working

var beautify = ace.require("ace/ext/beautify"); // get reference to extension

Beautify was always undefined.

After a while I gave up.

And used the external Beautify library (Link)

function beatify() {
  var val = editor.session.getValue();
  //Remove leading spaces
  var array = val.split(/\n/);
  array[0] = array[0].trim();
  val = array.join("\n");
  //Actual beautify (prettify)
  val = js_beautify(val);
  //Change current text to formatted text
  editor.session.setValue(val);
}