How to depend on 'detektMain' task?

[Den-Rimus]

I need to set up a chain of tasks, some of which will run after detektMain

I am able to run ./gradlew detektMain in root directory of my android library project with multiple modules.
But trying to depend on it in root build.gradle.kts code will result in

A problem occurred configuring root project 'my-awesome-project'.
> Task with name 'detektMain' not found in root project 'my-awesome-project'.

I looked up setting up these tasks (like detektMain or detektTest) in detekt source code and figured that registering them is made in project.afterEvaluate { closure (file DetektAndroid.kt:70). Ok. I tried putting my dependsOn logic to such closure (which seems expected thing to do in this case, no?) but still no luck.

Can someone help me author these gradle tasks correctly?

[chao2zhang]

Thank you for raising the question: The discussion of android gradle tasks can also be seen in #3122 and #3240.

I have prototype #3334 to register android source set the same way as we register JVM source set, and does not use afterEvaluate block to enforce ordering of the execution in gradle.
This prototype caused us to rethink gradle tasks #3364.

Feel free to use the method in #3334 if this is an urgent task for you and I am available on #kotlinlang slack. The prototype in #3334 is based on the custom solution I built at my company to register Android tasks correctly.

We are probably going to evaluate different options in the next release after 1.16, and I would like to wait for AGP 4.2 to be fully released as well.