Does someone have a custom script or Gradle task to merge detekt reports on the root directory? I ha...

# detekt

[Javier]

Does someone have a custom script or Gradle task to merge detekt reports on the root directory? I had a workaround that was running detekt on the root project over all files, but it is problematic with Gradle 8

[Sebastian Schuberth]

For me this still works with Gradle 8: https://detekt.dev/docs/introduction/reporting/#merging-reports

[Javier]

wow, I didn't know that exists, it will not work with project isolation, but it will be better than the workaround I just get working now and it was scaling really... bad

[Javier]

@Sebastian Schuberth it only works with one kind of output, right? is it not possible to merge all types?

[Javier]

it is not working for me

[Javier]

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[Sebastian Schuberth]

I believe it works for most report formats, like SARIF and XML, but not for e.g. MD, see https://github.com/detekt/detekt/issues/5034

[Javier]

I created a reportMerge task for each type of file, the detekt dir is created at the root build dir, but there are no files

[Javier]

I will remove md and retry, but looks like I am doing something wrong

[Javier]

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[Javier]

After deleting the md task, it still doesn't work

[Javier]

after moving to finalizedBy and some fixes it works, but sadly it doesn't work with html which is what I was looking for 😞

[eygraber]

Don't the gradle docs recommend not starting to address project isolation yet?

[Javier]

I didn't create an issue because, AFAIK, Detekt is applied to only one project, so there is no cross project configurations which can break project isolation

[Javier]

other different things is that there aren't merged reports and the proposed solutions are not project isolation friendly tho

[Emil Kantis]

I want a multimodule repo to use a single baseline. Because, as far as I can tell, the IntelliJ plug-in only supports a single baseline file.
The proposed setup uses cross configuration which I’m not keen on introducing.

[Javier]

But that is not related to project isolation support AFAIK

[Javier]

you can use the same file in all projects as you can access to that file without referencing any project, for example, rootDir.resolve("my common detekt file")

[Emil Kantis]

Each task to generate baseline overwrites the previous baseline instead of aggregating into it

[Javier]

Ah, right. Then maybe the refactor is more needed, cc @Brais Gabin

[Brais Gabin]

I never used the intellij plugin but, to me, that sounds like a missing feature in it. It should support multiple baselines.

[Brais Gabin]

I must say that I like to have each module with their own baselines.

[Emil Kantis]

Would be terrific if the IntelliJ plugin supported wildcard matchers (**/detekt-baseline.xml) 🙂

[Brais Gabin]

If you can, open an issue on the plugin repo.

[Brais Gabin]

I don't usually follow that repo but I'm sure that any pr on that regard will be more than welcome.

[Emil Kantis]

I piggy-backed on this one: https://github.com/detekt/detekt-intellij-plugin/issues/145