High level question: is there any way to have detekt enforce that you use named arguments? Specifica...

# detekt

[adam-mcneilly]

High level question: is there any way to have detekt enforce that you use named arguments? Specifically, I was thinking this would be helpful for methods or constructors that have say at least 3 arguments.

I haven't found anything in the detekt config that relates to this, but I'm also not sure if it's possible - how would static analysis know if the method I'm calling supports named arguments - it might not if it's a java interrop, right?

[adam-mcneilly]

If there's more to discuss here I'm happy to open an issue.

[schalkms]

This is a good example for a custom domain-specific rule that you could implement for you and your team.
Detekt allows custom rules by using the ServiceLoader pattern to collect all custom rules.
Reference:
https://arturbosch.github.io/detekt/extensions.html#custom-rulesets

[adam-mcneilly]

Cool, thanks! I will try it out sometime & if I make it work I'll make sure to come back here and share. 🙂

[schalkms]

Thanks! We highly appreciate users contributing back to the project and giving helpful feedback.