GSoC 2025 - Enhanced Kotlin Code Quality Reporting with Gradle Problems API: Integration with Detekt and Ktlint#
This project aims to implement a unified and actionable code quality reporting system through the integration of the recently introduced Gradle new Problems API. This API provides structured and rich information about the problems happening during a build. The information provided can be used by different interfaces such as Gradle’s console output, build scans, or IDEs to communicate any issues. With this API integration and structured format of the generated report, developers can experience faster issue identification, streamline debugging, and have improved code maintainability. This project will provide value to the Kotlin development community by upgrading the quality of their error reporting. The integration of the Problems API will done in the plugins: Detekt and Ktlint.
Team#
Contributor - Vanessa Johnson
Mentors - Oleg Nenashev - Donát Csikós - Reinhold Degenfellner
Organization#
- Kotlin Foundation
Technologies#
- Gradle
- Kotlin
- Problems API
Rationale#
Gradle recently introduced a new Problems API that allows Gradle and third-party plugins to propagate issues and warnings in a unified way. This API provides clean and actionable error reporting and more insights into the console output, dedicated HTML reports, and connected observability tools. We also want the code quality plugins for Kotlin to adopt this API. It would significantly improve the developer experience for 100,000+ Kotlin developers using Gradle.