Hi everyone! We are updating our base config rule...

# detekt

[cesards]

Hi everyone!

We are updating our base config rules and for a lot of the former rule sets we were using excludes: &generatedCode to exclude generated code from each of the rules that apply.

I thought there might be a way nowadays to exclude generated code from all rules so after looking into it, I found a closed issue about the topic:
https://github.com/detekt/detekt/issues/4743

so I went with:

detekt {
    source = files("src/main/kotlin", "src/test/kotlin", "src/androidTest/kotlin")
}

but that didn’t make it.

I saw another dev asking about this about two months ago but I’m not sure it got resolved: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C88E12QH4/p1654877805110359

I also landed on another thread where Nicola brought up:

Yeah I believe the exclude has no effect because we changed how we collect the source sets.

You’ll have to exclude using a like a package path or so. What happens is that excluded are computed for relative paths that are provided by the sourcesset from AGP

I’m not sure I completely follow the implications of the changes. I could assume this is a generic issue for most of us. Any chance you could share how you deal with this, if that’s the case?

Thanks in advance 🙏

[cesards]

The solution I went for was to use excludes at a Rule Set level:

style:
  excludes: [ '**/build/**' ]

[Brais Gabin]

How is your configuration? Which gradle task do you run? I use a nearly vanilla configuration of detekt and I don’t run into this issue.

[cesards]

@Brais Gabin

How is your configuration?

What’s the context? What do you want to know? Our config is mostly based on yours. I don’t think there’s anything in the config that excludes generated code, is there? And I don’t expect to be able to configure that from the Gradle Plugin since Gradle works under /src which is outside the scope.

[cesards]

Which gradle task do you run?

./gradlew detektBaselineMain

[Peter Mandeljc]

it started working for me, when I used correct gradle version, that is compatible with my detekt version 🤷‍♂️ Even exclude of build dir is not needed now.
https://detekt.dev/docs/introduction/compatibility/