Hi all - I can’t get the detekt to run as a task for specific module. I followed these steps for the...

# detekt

[Pamm Sar]

Hi all - I can’t get the detekt to run as a task for specific module.
I followed these steps for the app & submodules I want to apply it on: https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/gradletask.html
when I run ./gradlew :app:detekt (or ./gradlew :submodule-name:detekt ) I get the following output:

Task 'detekt' not found in project ':app'. Some candidates are: 'test'.

however if I run just ./gradlew detekt it runs the task.

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

@Pamm Sar where did u apply the detekt plugin... inside app gradle file or outside root gradle file?

[Pamm Sar]

inside the root gradle file

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

ok

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

so i believe u have added detekt at root gradle file and applied the plugin as well in the same file and also defined detekt{} block in root gradle itself .. is it?

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

./gradlew detekt

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

detekt will not be found inside ":app" sub tasks

[Pamm Sar]

oh okay I see

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

apply plugin: "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt"

detekt {
    input = files("${rootProject.projectDir}/app/src/main/java")
    config = files("${rootProject.projectDir}/scripts/detekt/detekt.yml")
    baseline = file("${rootProject.projectDir}/scripts/detekt/detekt-baseline.xml")
    reports {
        xml {
            enabled = true
            destination = file("${rootProject.projectDir}/app/build/reports/detekt/detekt-results.xml")
        }
    }
}

[Pamm Sar]

so i just added the following in the root gradle and havent added any plugins or dependencies in the app gradle

configurations {
    detekt
}

task detekt(type: JavaExec) {
    main = "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.cli.Main"
    classpath = configurations.detekt
    def input = "$projectDir/app/src/main/java"
    def config = "$projectDir/Scripts/detekt-config.yml"
    def params = [ '-i', input, '-c', config]
    args(params)
}

dependencies {
    detekt 'io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-cli:1.8.0'
}

[Pamm Sar]

Do I have to following these steps as well in order to use detekt task in the specific modules?
https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/groovydsl.html

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

ok.. i never tried that

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

but i used like this

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

detekt {
    input = files("${rootProject.projectDir}/app/src/main/java", "\"${rootProject.projectDir}/commonLib/src/main/java\"")
}

[Pamm Sar]

sorry it was more of a question haha if this should be applied as well

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

got it..

[Pamm Sar]

but yes currently I only have it like you suggested and it work okay but I wanted to change it to a task instead and got a bit stuck as it keeps failing for some reason

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

i see that your custom task extends from JavaExec

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

did u try changing that to

Detekt

[Venkat , Bangalore , India]

as they mentioned https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/groovydsl.html

[Pamm Sar]

I haven’t tried this tbh as I just followed what was in this doc but I will give it a go now

[Pamm Sar]

> Could not set unknown property 'main' for task ':detekt' of type io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.Detekt.

[Pamm Sar]

I managed to resolve this and using a custom detekt task inside the app/build.gradle file: https://detekt.github.io/detekt/groovydsl.html#defining-custom-detekt-task

[Artur Bosch]

I'm not sure if you only apply the detekt plugin to the root build file.
If you have many submodules you have to apply the plugin for all sub projects:

subprojects {
    apply {
        plugin("detekt...")
    }
}