Has Detekt, in general or the intellij plugin, a strict mode which force the refactor like Dart/Flutter plugin has? For example, if I have a

data class

in a single line which ends with a trailing comma, using the detekt plugin to format it, the format keeps. But it should be changing to multiline (or at least delete the trailing comma, but with a strict mode I think it should be converted to multiline). Another example is can be:

fun something() = "something"
fun something() = 
    "something"

The second one clearly should be reformated to the first one because it fits de space, but like both approach are valid, it doesn't get reformat I love a lot how the reformat works in Dart/Flutter because it forces A LOT how the code should look. Overall about spacing and playing with trailing comma to reformat from single line (or a "broken multiline") to multiline that looks good

IIRC detekt had some sort of autocorrect mode, but I think you might be more interested in ktlint? (https://github.com/pinterest/ktlint) It has a formatter at least.

Detekt includes ktlint

Detekt’s auto-format feature is restricted to ktlint. So this issue should effectively be raised upon ktlint.

I didn't know that Nicola, then Jon has reason too, thanks 😄

And ktlint is not very restrictive. If you want your code formatted in a much more "predictable" way you should check ktfmt from Facebook. It's much more strict than ktlint. I never used, I like what ktlint does.

I will check it too, thank you 🙂

(For future reference, we’re talking about it in the #ktfmt channel)

Yeah, I searched the channel after I did this question 😂

There is not plan to add ktfmt in detekt. I have no idea if they would be compatible. I think that ktfmt just rewrite the file instead of find specific issues. But, if it is compatible it would be a great third party plugin, I think.

What you said in this thread, ktfmt is more strict when it formats the code compared to ktlint

But, if it is compatible it would be a great third party plugin, I think.

☝️ This should probably be the way to go. As far as I’ve seen when developing the ktfmt Gradle plugin, we could have a generic

InvalidFormatting

rule that wrap a ktfmt call for a single file.