Hey guys! Do you usually display Detekt results in...

# detekt

[LeoColman]

Hey guys!
Do you usually display Detekt results in the README some way?
I was thinking that it would be an interesting shield to have in projects, a code-quality based on detekt findings.

I couldn't find anything that could help me with this in <http://shields.io|shields.io> . Do you have any ideas?

[Brais Gabin]

The problem I see is where to get the number of findings that detekt found in the main branch.

[LeoColman]

The detekt.md files contains all of the metrics, but they're in markdown. How could we scan it to display in a badge using github?

[Brais Gabin]

Where is that file so shield could read it?

[Brais Gabin]

We could even create a format for shield but, how we connect it to shield?

[LeoColman]

https://github.com/JopiterApp/JopiterAndroid/actions/runs/2682368400/attempts/1#summary-7371511233
This is one sample

[LeoColman]

I don't know exactly how to fetch it inside an action/shield, but the outputted format could be easily read

[LeoColman]

https://detekt.dev/docs/introduction/reporting
There are other reporting methods that could be used instead, such as HTML if it's easier

[LeoColman]

But the path would be
Generate Markdown -> Make shield get the latest one -> Select which property you want displayed

[Brais Gabin]

The easier one is txt. We just need to count the lines of that file.

[Brais Gabin]

The problem to me is the second step.

[LeoColman]

I think using txt will only allow reporting code smells, not other values such as number of properties

[LeoColman]

But it's the easiest to display a number of smells indeed