I’m looking for an easy way to report warnings in Detekt (that are not going to fail the build). I know there is a

Severity.Warning

on the

Issue

class that I can set for each issue that I report on a my rule. The problem is that those issues are counted towards the total number of issues used to let Detekt fail or not. Anyone faced a similar scenario?

@gammax hey Nico. You can configure build failure thresholds for your custom detekt rule. With the following statements detekt does not count any finding reported by

myrule

. Please remember that the default weight is 1.

build:
  weights:
    myrule: 0

Awesome, thanks for the lead

you're welcome 🙂

Not a huge issue for us but I was also wondering about the same recently. We don't use detekts fail functionality and let it run over all modules. Then our CI system and Sonarqube integration parses the XML reports. The XML reports unfortunately does not even take the weights into account. All issues are categorized into error/warning and there is no way to configure that.

@taso okay, thanks for the feedback. What problem do you see with the XML reports? Are the weights not part of the report?

Here is the mentioned hard-coded part. Weights are not part of XML reports. https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/master/detekt-cli/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/cli/out/XmlOutputReport.kt#L42-L51

So you want to keep track of "suppressed" issues which should not fail the build but be reported for the case someone wants to fix them (boy scout rule) ? - interesting feature for a quality monitoring tool 🙂

I didn't really think about that. I guess baseline helps that too.