Unlink the Lint and Build task

[hantsy]

In the latest Kotlinter/ktlint update, we found Kotlinter lint task is a dependency when running build task.

In our GitHub actions, we use a lint workflow for lint reports, and a build workflow for building the project.

The purpose is to avoid unused lint work when performing a build task.

But currently, we found the lint is bound to build tightly.

BTW, we do not install the prepush hook, and also exclude the build/generated directory in the Gradle.kts.

tasks.withType<LintTask>() {
    source = source.minus(fileTree("build/generated")).asFileTree
}
tasks.withType<FormatTask>() {
    source = source.minus(fileTree("build/generated")).asFileTree
}

Also exclude the dir in the .editorcofig.

[src/generated/**/*.{kt,kts}]
ktlint = disabled

[build/generated/**/*.{kt,kts}]
ktlint = disabled

[jeremymailen]

I believe that check depends on lintKotlin (ref) so by default it is part of the test and check lifecycle of the project, not compile.

You could customize the build to remove that dependsOn.

[hantsy]

I have configured to remove the dependency like this.

tasks.check.configure {
    // remove lintKotlin from check task's dependencies
     val dependencies = taskDependencies.getDependencies(this).filter { !it.name.startsWith("lintKotlin") }
    setDependsOn(dependencies)
    //dependsOn(externalApiTest, integrationTest)
}

But this did not work in the latest Gradle 9.0.

I tried to use the following instead.

project.afterEvaluate {
    tasks.check {
        val dependencies = taskDependencies.getDependencies(this).filter { !it.name.startsWith("lintKotlin") }
        setDependsOn(dependencies)
    }
}

Worked again.

[jeremymailen]

Might be worth documenting in the Readme for those who need to do it.
If a lot of people need this, we can make a kotlinter config option to either configure check lifecycle or not.