Test common config sections pass through config validation

detekt-api/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/api/internal/ValidatableConfiguration.kt

@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ interface ValidatableConfiguration {
  * We need to predefine them as the user may not have already declared an 'config'-block
  * in the configuration and we want to validate the config by default.
  */
-const val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES = ".*>.*>excludes,.*>.*>includes,.*>.*>active,.*>.*>autoCorrect"
+val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES = setOf(
+    ".*>.*>excludes",
+    ".*>.*>includes",
+    ".*>.*>active",
+    ".*>.*>autoCorrect",
+    "build>weights.*"
+).joinToString(",")
 
 @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST", "ComplexMethod")
 fun validateConfig(

detekt-cli/src/test/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/cli/DefaultConfigValidationSpec.kt

@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ class DefaultConfigValidationSpec : Spek({
 
     describe("default configuration is valid") {
 
+        val baseline = yamlConfig("default-detekt-config.yml")
+
         it("is valid comparing itself") {
-            val baseline = yamlConfig("default-detekt-config.yml")
-            val result = validateConfig(baseline, baseline)
-            assertThat(result).isEmpty()
+            assertThat(validateConfig(baseline, baseline)).isEmpty()
+        }
+
+        it("does not flag common known config sub sections") {
+            assertThat(validateConfig(yamlConfig("configs/common_known_sections.yml"), baseline)).isEmpty()
         }
     }
 })

detekt-cli/src/test/resources/configs/common_known_sections.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+build:
+  maxIssues: 10
+  weights:
+    complexity: 2
+    # style: 0
+
+config:
+  validation: true
+  excludes: "test>.*"
+
+processors:
+  active: true
+  exclude:
+    - 'DetektProgressListener'
+
+console-reports:
+  active: true
+  exclude:
+    - 'FileBasedFindingsReport'

docs/pages/kdoc/detekt-api/io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.api.internal/-d-e-f-a-u-l-t_-p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y_-e-x-c-l-u-d-e-s.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ title: DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES - detekt-api
 
 # DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES
 
-`const val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES: `[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)
+`val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES: `[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)
 
 Known existing properties on rule's which my be absent in the default-detekt-config.yml.
 

docs/pages/kdoc/detekt-api/io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.api.internal/index.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ title: io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.api.internal - detekt-api
 ### Properties
 
 | [ABSOLUTE_PATH](-a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e_-p-a-t-h.html) | `val ABSOLUTE_PATH: Key<`[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)`>` |
-| [DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES](-d-e-f-a-u-l-t_-p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y_-e-x-c-l-u-d-e-s.html) | Known existing properties on rule's which my be absent in the default-detekt-config.yml.`const val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES: `[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html) |
+| [DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES](-d-e-f-a-u-l-t_-p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y_-e-x-c-l-u-d-e-s.html) | Known existing properties on rule's which my be absent in the default-detekt-config.yml.`val DEFAULT_PROPERTY_EXCLUDES: `[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html) |
 | [RELATIVE_PATH](-r-e-l-a-t-i-v-e_-p-a-t-h.html) | `val RELATIVE_PATH: Key<`[`String`](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)`>` |
 
 ### Functions