Is is possible to add and automatic space before { ?

[Norbert K. <nk...@gm...>]

Hi,

using Emacs for editing Java, and I want to indent like so

if (foo) {
    bla;
}

i.e. opening brace on the same line as the "if".  This works already, but I
always have to enter the space between the ) and the { manually. Is there a
clean-up function that would automate this? I'm thinking of something as
simple as

(if (looking-back ")") (insert ? ))

Would that work? Or is that even already implemented and I just did not
find it? If not: what's the correct way to add a custom clean-up function?
It's a couple of years that I last wrote elisp, so please bear with me.

Best,
  Norbert

P.S.: If possible, please also CC me because I don't regularly read this
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