Gitlab / CodeClimate report

[lschneiderbauer]

Gitlab supports the consumption of a so called "codequality report" artifact, so that it can display static code checker results in a structured way, e.g. in merge requests, see https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/testing/code_quality/#import-code-quality-results-from-a-cicd-job.

This reports needs to be in a specific JSON format which is a subset of the CodeClimate format.

Linter like

• ESLint
• Stylelint
• MyPy
• Flake8
• Pylint
• Ruff
• golangci-lint
• PMD Copy/Paste Detector

already support that format.

Would you be interested in a contribution that adds support in the form of a function that consumes an "lints" object and returns a JSON string in the mentioned format?

[MichaelChirico]

makes sense. we already have something similar:

https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/sarif_output.html

[lschneiderbauer]

Thanks for the reference.
I presume the new function should behave in the same way, i.e. writing the result directly to a file instead of simply returning the json string?

[MichaelChirico]

I think it depends on what would work best for the tooling, so I leave that up to you.