Not running formatting autocorrect

[akhbulatov]

Hey. I looked at similar issues and tried solutions from there, but it didn't work for Android project. For example, adding a new line at the end of a file. Maybe I missed something. When I run ./gradlew detekt, the analysis is run and creates a report, but without formatting. For formatting need another task or reason for something else?

build.gradle (project-level):

buildscript {
    ext.versions = [
            ....
            'detekt' : '1.0.0-RC16'
    ]

    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/" }
    }

    dependencies {
        ...
        classpath "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-gradle-plugin:${versions.detekt}"
    }
}

allprojects {
    apply from: "$rootDir/detekt.gradle"

    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

build.gralde (app module):

dependencies {
    ...
    detektPlugins "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt:detekt-formatting:${versions.detekt}"
}

detekt.gradle (in project's root):

apply plugin: "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt"

detekt {
    toolVersion = "${versions.detekt}"
    input = files("src/main/java")
    parallel = true
    filters = ".*build.*,.*/resources/.*,.*/tmp/.*"
    config = files("$rootDir/default-detekt-config.yml")
}

default-detekt-config.yml:

formatting:
  active: true
  android: true
  autoCorrect: true
  ...
  FinalNewline:
    active: true
    autoCorrect: true

[arturbosch]

Please try adding autoCorrect = true to your gradle build file inside the detekt extensions.
We migrated away from a top level autoCorrect property in the config file.

[bagage]

I'm facing the same issue. I tried your suggestion, but autoCorrect is not a know property:

detekt {
			toolVersion = "1.0.0-RC16"
			config = project.rootProject.files("detekt-config.yml")
			parallel = true
			failFast = true
			autoCorrect = true
		}

It yields:

Build file '/build.gradle' line: 86
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'testproject'.
> Could not set unknown property 'autoCorrect' for object of type io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.extensions.DetektExtension.

[akhbulatov]

@bagage add this in build.gradle:

tasks.withType(io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.Detekt) {
    // ...
    autoCorrect = true
}

[bagage]

Yes it works! Thanks a lot @akhbulatov!!

[bagage]

@akhbulatov maybe it's worth adding a note on the readme? I think many people would love to have autoCorrect enabled :).

[arturbosch]

Thanks @akhbulatov !
@bagage with the new release soon, you do not need the tasks.withType... thingy anymore, autoCorrect will work on the detekt {...} closure.
By mistake it was only added for the task but not for the extension - #1790.