How does detekt automatically registers itself with gradle check?

[root-ansh]

Hi devs. I find the detekt tool to be very awesome and fun to work with.

My question may sound off topic, but I am currently trying to find something like "detekt , but for java" (afaik detekt does not work wiith java code, right?)

so far checkstyle seems to work but it doesn't automatically registers for check task as detekt plugin does.

so i was wondering if i could add any code in my app to make a single gradle check command that would perform analysis on both kotlin and java code?

many thanks

[marschwar]

You are right, your question is a little off topic ;).

afaik detekt does not work wiith java code, right?

That is correct. detekt is a static code analyzer for kotlin only.

so far checkstyle seems to work but it doesn't automatically registers for check task as detekt plugin does.

That I cannot believe. If the checkstyle (and spotbugs as well) plugin is applied to the project, it is automatically added as a check task dependency.

[edit] Please check out this test in the gradle project

so i was wondering if i could add any code in my app to make a single gradle check command that would perform analysis on both kotlin and java code?

What you could do is add any task as a dependency of the check task like this.

tasks.named("check").configure {
  dependsOn myCustomCheckTask
}

[root-ansh]

hi thanks for replying. the dependency block worked! for me , i had a custom task like this :

task Checkstyle(type: Checkstyle) {
    source 'src/main/java'
    ignoreFailures true
    showViolations true
    include '**/*.java'
    classpath = files()
}

it worked when i run the command gradle checkstyle but was not running via gradle check . so after adding :

tasks.named("check").configure {
    dependsOn "Checkstyle" // i was previously trying "checkstyle" in smallcase , but that didn't worked. 
}

it worked correctly.