I can’t seem to get autocorrect to work. This is w...

# detekt

[voben]

I can’t seem to get autocorrect to work. This is what my detekt.gradle file looks like. Any ideas?

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

detekt {
    parallel = true
    config = files("$rootDir/codeQuality/detekt.yml")
    autoCorrect = true
    reports {
        xml {
            enabled = false
        }
        txt {
            enabled = false
        }
    }
}

[chao]

Did you run ./gradlew detekt --auto-correct?

[voben]

When I run ./gradlew detekt --auto-correct I get Unknown command-line option ‘--auto-correct’

[voben]

Is that the same thing?

[chao]

https://detekt.github.io/detekt/extensions.html#autocorrect-property According to the doc, it should work at least with both options on

[chao]

Note that only the ktlint rules actually support autocorrect

[voben]

But why doesnt the auto correction option work when I run it with gradle? I just get the error above

[voben]

Got it working by moving detekt configuration from detekt.gradle to a build.gradle file with detekt closure. Thanks

[chao]

Does that mean that detekt.gradle was not applied in the build.gradle before 🤔

[voben]

So did some more digging, it looks like every rule I want formatted, I have to add the `autoCorrect: true`node. Autocorrect doesnt seem to work when placed only the build.gradle file

[chao]

Ah yes

[voben]

But if I want all rules autoCorrected, it doesnt look like I can have this just once like this. I still need to add autoCorrect to each individual formatting rule. That right?

formatting:
  autoCorrect: true

[chao]

By default those have autoCorrect = true

[chao]

https://github.com/detekt/detekt/blob/master/detekt-cli/src/main/resources/default-detekt-config.yml#L216

[voben]

Thanks @chao