False positive from UnusedImports on org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.provideDelegate

[vlsi]

See detekt/detekt#1608

[shashachu]

I'm not sure this is a solvable problem. There's no way via static analysis we can tell that provideDelegate is used in that file. In this very specific case, I'd recommend a ktlint-disable directive to suppress the error.

[vlsi]

I wonder if provideDelegate can be added to default excludes.

I see it might require compilation in order to tell if the import is used or not, however it is really sad that default spotless + ktlint configuration produces false positives on provideDelegate call.

[vlsi]

Alternative option is to allow provideDelegate if source code contains at least one by

[JLLeitschuh]

Could you check the type of provideDelegate to see if it's a delegate type and leave it in place if it is?

[shashachu]

Alternative option is to allow provideDelegate if source code contains at least one by

Yes I see that detekt has just whitelisted that import. We could certainly do that.

Could you check the type of provideDelegate to see if it's a delegate type and leave it in place if it is?

@JLLeitschuh I'm not sure what you mean here.

[vlsi]

Yes I see that detekt has just whitelisted that import. We could certainly do that

or even "whitelist it provided there's by in the source code"

[shashachu]

It's not very sophisticated, but I put up a PR for this.