Feature request: Make Detekt and DetektCreateBaselineTask implement a common interface

[ZacSweers]

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Expected Behavior

Currently, these two tasks are completely independent but have overlapping inputs. This means that if we want to configure Detekt (for example – jvmTarget), we must manually configure both types. It would be convenient if this shared configuration was extracted to a common interface (that extends Task) that could be used to configure both.

Current Behavior

project.tasks.configureEach<Detekt> {
  this.jvmTarget = jvmTarget
  exclude("**/build/**")
}
project.tasks.configureEach<DetektCreateBaselineTask> {
  this.jvmTarget = jvmTarget
  exclude("**/build/**")
}

Desired, using a name like DetektTask

project.tasks.configureEach<DetektTask> {
  // Covers both Detekt and DetektCreateBaselineTask
  this.jvmTarget = jvmTarget
  exclude("**/build/**")
}

Context

[atulgpt]

Hi @ZacSweers are you talking something similar to #5946 ?

[ZacSweers]

Yup! Note you can use the Task interface rather than DefaultTask and then you don't need to make the base task also a SourceTask (since the baseline task wasn't one before). Then the base task can also be an interface

[atulgpt]

since the baseline task wasn't one before it was SourceTask before as well. See below SS

[ZacSweers]

Oh, I can't read. Nevermind!

[detekt-ci]

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