Should fail if --baseline file does not found?

[ybiquitous]

Hi,

When I'm using detekt via CLI, I noticed a behavior that is not very intuitive.

When I accidentally pass a non-existent file to the --baseline option, detekt never outputs about the invalid file and succeeds.

# NG: basline.xml
# OK: baseline.xml
$ detekt --baseline basline.xml

I wasted time until I noticed the filename was incorrect, so I think it more useful if detekt would fail fast when passing an invalid file path to the --baseline option.

For example:

$ detekt --baseline basline.xml
Invalid the file path `basline.xml` is specified to the `--baseline` option!

What do you think about this idea?

Thank you for reading.

[BraisGabin]

I think that you are right. This is the current behaviour of the detekt gradle plugin so we should fail if the baseline file doesn't exist too.

[ybiquitous]

Thank you! 😊