lintChecks with AGP7

[androideveloper]

We are currently migrating to AGP 7 and noticed that our custom lint rules are not included in the lint checks. We previously included them using lintChecks project(":libraries:lint-rules") and we only need them for local code check, so no publishing needed. Is there anything specific that needs to be changed to make it work with AGP 7?

[tnorbye]

Do you mean that they're not packaged (e.g. the AAR file does not contain a lint.jar) or that somehow the checks aren't working/being applied?

[androideveloper]

the checks aren't working/being applied

this.

An example of a lint check we have is below. And to test the setup, we previously added a usage of SimpleDateFormat and could see it in the lint report. After updating to AGP 7 we don't see it in the lint report.

@Suppress("UnstableApiUsage")
class LegacyDateNamingPatternDetector : Detector(), Detector.UastScanner {
    override fun getApplicableUastTypes() = listOf(UImportStatement::class.java)

    override fun createUastHandler(context: JavaContext) = LegacyDateInvalidImportHandler(context)
}

class LegacyDateInvalidImportHandler(private val context: JavaContext) : UElementHandler() {
    override fun visitImportStatement(node: UImportStatement) {
        node.importReference?.let { importReference ->
            if (importReference.asSourceString().contains("java.text.SimpleDateFormat")) {
                context.report(IssueLegacyDateImport, node, context.getLocation(importReference), "Forbidden import of Legacy Date API")
            }
        }
    }
}

class IssueRegistry : IssueRegistry() {
    override val issues: List<Issue> = listOf(
        IssueLegacyDateImport,
        IssueContextCompatIncorrectUsage
    )

    override val api: Int = CURRENT_API

    override val vendor: Vendor = Vendor(
        vendorName = "placeholder",
        feedbackUrl = "placeholder",
        contact = "placeholder"
    )
}

val IssueLegacyDateImport = Issue.create(
    id = "LegacyDateImport",
    briefDescription = "Old Java date APIs used",
    explanation = "Use Java 8 dates instead. See DateTimeExt class for more info.",
    category = CORRECTNESS,
    priority = 5,
    severity = Severity.WARNING,
    implementation = Implementation(
        LegacyDateNamingPatternDetector::class.java,
        EnumSet.of(Scope.JAVA_FILE, Scope.TEST_SOURCES)
    )
)

[glorinli]

Same issue with AGP 7.0.3 and lint 30.0.3.

[glorinli]

I figured out that in my case it's caused by the maven publish plugin since I used third party maven plugin and seems it doesn't work well with AGP 7.0.3.

It's ok when I switch to builtin maven-publish plugin.

[apkelly]

I have the same problem, but I'm not using the maven-publish plugin at all, and I'm not publishing my lint checks via a library module, I'm just using them locally.

I am using kotlin for my build scripts, not groovy.....would that make a difference?

Android Studio Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Beta 4 AGP=7.1.0-beta04 Lint=30.1.0-beta04

I've literally just included the code from this repo and have a Log.println() in my MainActivity which doesn't get highlighted when I run ./gradlew lintDebug or inside Android Studio.