Hi, I am new to detekt. Will like to check if ther...

# detekt

[Nick Chong]

Hi, I am new to detekt. Will like to check if there any limitations to detekt?

Also is detekt able to have compilation information? What I mean by this is if detekt is able have the full Kotlin IR information?

Reason is because I have Kotlin source files that uses third party packages APIs. Some of these APIs implementation have a certain annotation that I want to detect. However we will not directly see these annotations as they are only present in the external library. In the case of KAPT, I observed that KAPT can only detect annotations present in Kotlin source files that were parsed to kotlinc. If I want to detect annotations in a “deeper level” (third party library class files) I have to rely on Kotlin IR as it is able to have almost a full context of the entire program information before bytecode is produced.

[gammax]

Also is detekt able to have compilation information? What I mean by this is if detekt is able have the full Kotlin IR information?

Yes it is

[Nick Chong]

Nice, thanks!

[schalkms]

Hi @Nick Chong!
Welcome to detekt. You might also want to have a look at detekt's compiler plugin.
https://detekt.dev/docs/gettingstarted/compilerplugin

[Nick Chong]

Can I clarify my understanding, we use detekt cli to generate custom rules?

[schalkms]

Not necessarily. You can also integrate your custom rules with the Gradle plugin. See here for more details.
https://detekt.dev/docs/introduction/extensions#let-detekt-know-about-your-extensions