Report generator is looking for dotnet even the artifact is Python code

[hyousif-pkglobal]

Describe the bug Report generator is configured to create report for a Python code, however, the Azure pipeline fails due to missing dotnet executable even though it is not required.

2023-09-14T15:38:19.5314570Z ##[section]Starting: reportgenerator 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5319335Z ============================================================================== 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5319510Z Task : ReportGenerator 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5319621Z Description : ReportGenerator converts coverage reports generated by coverlet, OpenCover, dotCover, Visual Studio, NCover, Cobertura, JaCoCo, Clover, gcov, or lcov into human readable reports in various formats. 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5320023Z Version : 5.1.25 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5320106Z Author : Palmmedia 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5320208Z Help : More Information 2023-09-14T15:38:19.5320342Z ============================================================================== 2023-09-14T15:38:19.9164577Z ##[error]Unable to locate executable file: 'dotnet'. Please verify either the file path exists or the file can be found within a directory specified by the PATH environment variable. Also check the file mode to verify the file is executable. 2023-09-14T15:38:19.9176742Z ##[section]Finishing: reportgenerator To Reproduce Azure pipeline task

• task: reportgenerator@5 inputs: reports: 'coverage.xml' targetdir: 'coveragereport' sourcedirs: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)' artifact: 'PythonCoverage' disable.coverage.autogenerate: 'true'
  1. Console output of ReportGenerator: Azure devops pipeline

[danielpalme]

ReportGenerator depends on .NET. That does not change, if your code base is written in Python.

If you use one of the default build agents (ubuntu-latest, windows-latest), the .NET SDK will already be available.
If you use a custom agent, you'll have to install the SDK yourself:

- task: UseDotNet@2
  inputs:
    version: 6.x