In one of my sample apps, I'm trying to move all o...

# detekt

[adam-mcneilly]

In one of my sample apps, I'm trying to move all of my static analysis checks into the root project, where previously I had them in each of two modules. I put this off because I keep facing some issue that when I put the static analysis plugin inside it's own gradle file, detekt never seems to be able to find my config file and I believe that causes it to fall back on detekt's default config file.

I have a PR up on the sample app highlighting the code change, if anyone could help take a look some time, but this isn't urgent. https://github.com/AdamMc331/PokeDex/pull/54/files#r336759846

[adam-mcneilly]

Is there some way to see where detekt is pointing to for a config file? I tried running with --info but didn't see it.

[adam-mcneilly]

If I run detektGenerateConfig, it creates a file in rootProject/config/detekt/detekt.yml. If I replace that with my custom one, everything works fine.

I suppose I found a work around, now, but I still don't understand why the above doesn't work out.

[taso]

Instead of file("${project.projectDir}/config/detekt/detekt.yml") shouldn't it be rootProject?

[taso]

You can actually use this

rootProject.file('config/detekt/detekt.yml')

[taso]

Project at that level is the subproject. That is trying to look into yml files in each module.