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?

assemble.dependsOn(detektMain)

should do the job for you 👍

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

Could not get unknown property ‘assemble’ for root project

This happens because you don’t have an

assemble

task (yet)

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

?

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

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?

You like having a

detetkAll

task provided by default?

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 😁

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

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?

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.

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

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

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