hello , i want to know how to use detekt with formatting plugin in a multi module project, in a way ...

# detekt

[Anouar di Kali]

hello , i want to know how to use detekt with formatting plugin in a multi module project, in a way to include/exclude sub projects , should detekt configuration and dependencies be present in each sub project build file ? or just in the root build file ? i tried but i keep getting this error :
Execution failed for task ':app:detekt'.

Run failed with 1 invalid config property.

- Property 'formatting' is misspelled or does not exist.

[Brais Gabin]

Differen options here. If you just want to remove that error you can add this on the yaml:

config:
  excludes: "formatting"

[Brais Gabin]

You know that you are not configuring formatting on all the modules so it's fine to don't care when it's configured in modules that doesn't have it

[Brais Gabin]

Other options is to have the plugin always applied but change the config file between modules. I don't think there is a "correct" answer here. It's just what you prefer

[Brais Gabin]

Other option is to have a defalt config and apply one extra configuration overriding the part that you want to change

[Anouar di Kali]

so I did what you suggested by always apply the plugin , but instead of adding extra config to subprojects I overridden the source property that detekt use by default to include only covered subprojects like this :
detekt{
source=files("app","core","lib")
}

[Anouar di Kali]

the issue i'm facing now is that "autoCorrect" for formatting rule in yaml config has no effect when set to "true" , maybe it's a bug idk

formatting:
  active: true
  android: true
  autoCorrect: true

[Anouar di Kali]

I found that autocorrect should be set explicitly in detekt config for gradle plugin