Hello everyone, I was wondering: Is it possible to...

# detekt

[iliask]

Hello everyone, I was wondering:
Is it possible to make detekt (without type resolution at the moment) always run after assemble tasks automatically, either through a detekt configuration or some gradle magic?

[gammax]

assemble.dependsOn(detektMain) should do the job for you 👍

[iliask]

Thanks for the quick answer! I am working on a multi-module android project and I added a custom detektAll task in the root build.gradle

tasks.register("detektAll", Detekt) {
...
}

When adding assemble.dependsOn(detektAll) in the root build.gradle then gradle sync fails 🤔

Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: Could not get unknown property 'assemble' for root project

[gammax]

Could not get unknown property ‘assemble’ for root project

This happens because you don’t have an assemble task (yet)

[iliask]

When running ./gradlew tasks the assemble task is present.
When I add the suggested snippet in the app module build.gradle then gradle syncs successfully. Perhaps the assemble tasks are not "seen" by the root build.gradle ?

[gammax]

Perhaps the assemble tasks are not “seen” by the root build.gradle ?

Sort of. The assemble task are “local” to your subprojects. While I suppose your detektAll task is declared in the top level build.gradle

[iliask]

Ok I see it's more of a gradle than a detekt topic. Thanks for your help!
Out of curiosity btw are there any plans to "streamline" multi-module support more officially?

[gammax]

You like having a detetkAll task provided by default?

[iliask]

Personally I think it would be useful since a lot of android projects are/move towards the multi-module approach.
With my "beginner-level" gradle knowledge I needed to connect together some article sources to make it work 😁

[gammax]

The reality is detekt already supports multimodule out of the box. The fact that you want to have a top level detektAll goes against the Gradle philosophy

[iliask]

I see perhaps I took the wrong approach with detektAll .
Would you recommend instead to add detekt dependency in every module via allprojects {} or something else?

[gammax]

If you invoke ./gradlew detektMain you’re essentially saying to Gradle to invoke detetkMain on all the subprojects. That should be sufficient to run detekt on all the subprojects (i.e. you don’t need a detetkAll ).

You can specify the dependency between assemble and detektAll a the project level then.

[iliask]

Ok I will integrate detekt with this approach. Thank you for the help, appreciate it! 🙌

[ephemient]

note: detekt is already added as a dependency to the standard check task, which means if you run either gradle check or gradle build, it will also run detekt

[gammax]

☝️ Yup that’s true, but that’s not the case for Type Resolution tasks