What is the preferred way to indent cases in a switch? [closed]

Question

I prefer the second way as well. But it is more important to stay consistent within a particular application and/or within a particular team than it is to indent one way or the other.

According to the "official" Java Code Conventions, it's the first variant (no additional indentation for case).

I tend to indent all control structure bodies a single (4space) tab like so:

switch (i) 
{
    case 1:
        ...
    case n:
        ...
}

I consider the switch to be the outer control structure and the case directives part of the body(even though they are part of the control structure).

I would then further tab indent each case like so:

switch (i) 
{
    case 1:
        do_something();
    case n:
        do_something_else();
}

I find this to be the most readable format for the switch case construct.

As jkohlhepp has mentioned conformity to the code style conventions of the project you are working on is the most important thing, if you are working on a project that has none, it is worth developing some.

The first is the standard switch case indentation.

switch (i) {

case 1:
    .... // Here you can write more code in a row than using the second way
    break;
case n:
    ....
    break;
default:
    ....
    break;
}

Notice the new inserted line between switch (i) and case 1: