Is there a reasonable way to emit a warning from a custom detekt rule?

short answer: no

okay! No problem

long answer: So you can technically report an issue, and specify

Severity.Warning

in the severity.

That seems like a good way to implement a log message in the config, thanks!

Just to clarify my initial

no

: This

Severity.Warning

that you can specify in the custom rule, is not playing any role in the detekt inspection result other than any other rule.

right

In other words: a

Severity.Warning

will let your build fail as much as any other rule will do. Is more like a "label" that you can have to inform the user.

yeah, I don't want to fail the build. I just want to alert the user that their configuration might not be exactly what they wanted

👆 that's exactly the opposite of what I said 😅

okay, then perhaps I am misunderstanding

I'm not sure I follow you, but there is already configuration validation implemented in Detekt

sorry, I have to go afk for a minute, but I will explain when I return, if that's okay?