Standard SpringBootApplication class triggers UtilityClassWithPublicConstructor

[henrik242]

Is it possible to automatically exclude a @SpringBootApplication from the UtilityClassWithPublicConstructor rule? If not, maybe that could be a feature to implement? It feels noisy to add a @Suppress here.

@SpringBootApplication
class ExternalApiApplication {
    companion object {
        fun main(args: Array<String>) {
            SpringApplication.run(ExternalApiApplication::class.java, *args)
        }
    }
}

[marschwar]

Please have a look at the suppression documentation. Without actually trying, I would assume that you could do:

UtilityClassWithPublicConstructor:
  active: true
  ignoreAnnotated:
    - 'SpringBootApplication'

[henrik242]

Fantastic, thanks! I only looked at https://detekt.dev/docs/rules/style#utilityclasswithpublicconstructor and didn't know about suppressors :)