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Support for Kotlin Formatter Detekt

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
build-system, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading Spotless's existing Ktlint integration and the Detekt documentation linked in the issue to understand how formatter integrations are structured. Determine the integration's configuration and invocation requirements, then verify that Kotlin projects can use Detekt through Spotless alongside the existing Ktlint support.

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Description

enhancement

There's another formatter with much more configuration called Detekt that some kotlin projects may want to use instead of Ktlint.

(Personally, I still love Ktlint but some people want options). It would be nice if there was an integration with Detekt built in to Spotless..

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