Is there a way I can get the detekt plugin version...

# detekt

[Eric]

Is there a way I can get the detekt plugin version inside another custom task? I’m trying to abstract away some behavior that’s in each of our projects. We download the detekt config from a central location (artifactory) and have a file there for every version, like detekt-config-1.15.yml and detekt-config-1.19.yml etc. I’d like my task to just discover the version of detekt and built the URL automatically. I can do something like

project.extensions.findByName("io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt")

to find the plugin, but then how can I introspect that to find the version?

[Eric]

Maybe this?

val detektPlugin = project.extensions.findByName("detekt") as CodeQualityExtension
val version = detektPlugin.toolVersion

[Eric]

that’s actually null 😞

[Eric]

both of these work:

val version = project.configurations.getByName(CONFIGURATION_DETEKT).dependencies.first { it.group == "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt" }.version!!

and

val version = Properties().run {
    DetektPlugin::class.java.classLoader.getResourceAsStream("versions.properties").bufferedReader()
        .let { load(it) }
    getProperty("detektVersion")
}