I added Checkstyle to my Gradle project's build.gradle.kts succesfully:

plugins {
    ...
    checkstyle
}

checkstyle {
    toolVersion = "10.3.2"
    isIgnoreFailures = false // Added this so that the tasks fail if CheckStyle errors are present.
}

I now have access to CheckStyle's tools with:

• gradle checkstyleMain
• gradle checkstyleTest

They both work as expected showing warnings and generating HTML reports.

I now want to make the gradle run task run the checkstyleMain task before itself and to fail if there are CheckStyle issues.

Is there a way to do this? The only references I've found so far are not very clear and are for Groovy and Android instead of Kotlin and Java build.gradle files.

CodePudding user response：

To make task depends on another task you need to use dependsOn:
bootRun.dependsOn(checkstyleMain)

For failing in case of error/warning it is possible to use following configuration for checkstyle:

ignoreFailures = false
maxWarnings = 0
maxErrors = 0

CodePudding user response：

This is what worked for me:

checkstyle {
    toolVersion = "10.3.2"
    isIgnoreFailures = false
    maxWarnings = 0
    maxErrors = 0
}

val build = "build"
tasks[build].dependsOn("checkstyleMain")

Now gradle build fails if there are errors found in checkstyleMain .