I’m having problems using detekt in my project… (kotlin jvm project) I have different problems if I use 1.9.1 or 1.10.0 1.10.0

Execution failed for task ':foo:detekt'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':foo:detekt'.
   > Could not find io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-cli:1.10.0.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - <https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/detekt-cli/1.10.0/detekt-cli-1.10.0.pom>
     If the artifact you are trying to retrieve can be found in the repository but without metadata in 'Maven POM' format, you need to adjust the 'metadataSources { ... }' of the repository declaration.

I have seen someone mentioning in github issues that it seems that some artifacts weren’t published in all repositories If I try to use 1.9.1:

> Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-html-jvm:0.7.1.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - <https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlinx/kotlinx-html-jvm/0.7.1/kotlinx-html-jvm-0.7.1.pom>
     If the artifact you are trying to retrieve can be found in the repository but without metadata in 'Maven POM' format, you need to adjust the 'metadataSources { ... }' of the repository declaration.
     Required by:
         project :foo > io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-cli:1.9.1

I’ve tried all possible combinations of the instructions in the website and still haven’t got it to work. Can someone help?

Thanks for reporting. So the first issue you’re facing is related to this https://github.com/detekt/detekt/issues/2842 (1.10.0 is not yet on maven central, we’ll hopefully fix it soon).

I had tried with repositories before and it didn't work either (in the error message it reported as having looked at one repo only which is weird) I can try what you said when I get back to my computer and I'll update (not soon) Cheers

Kotlin html is only published in jcenter. So you need to add that repository at least for that dependency.

I tried what “configuration on groovy dsl” link. As it is in the example, it fails with

only buildscript {} and other plugins {} script blocks are allowed before plugins {} blocks, no other statements are allowed

. Wrapping it with

buildscript { ... }

it goes back to the error message I posted, where it can’t find kotlinx html fwiw, this is the gradle file now:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()

        // or
        // also tried removing the repositories below this line
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter {
            content {
                // just allow to include kotlinx projects
                // detekt needs 'kotlinx-html' for the html report
                includeGroup "org.jetbrains.kotlinx"
            }
        }
    }
}

plugins {
    id "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt" version "1.9.1"
}

It shouldn’t affect this, but this is in a multi module project. Although to simplify things I am trying to apply this directly in one of the modules… This is an open source project so you can get exactly the same code as me if you want to try it on your computer

This is an open source project so you can get exactly the same code as me if you want to try it on your computer

Can you please link it?

https://github.com/pedroql/mvflow I’m trying to do this in the mvflow-core module (the only module with actual kotlin code so far). So you can open

mvflow-core/build.gradle

file instead of the one in the root folder.

So this will work:

plugins {
    id "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt" version "1.10.0"
}
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()
}

wow, that works! I was convinced that the dependencies for a plugin had to be declared inside the buildscript closure. So my problem was that I was missing the repositories in the top level! 😮