How to register AndroidLintInspectionBase in IntellijIdea Plugin - intellij-idea

Question

I'm creating a costum Android Lint Inspection and I need to register the inspection, to be run. Where do I need to register it?
I've already tried to register the inspection which provides the inspection inside plugin.xml file.
The actual inspection:
class HardcodedDimensionsInspection : AndroidLintInspectionBase("Hardcoded dimensions", HardcodedDimensDetector.ISSUE) {
override fun getShortName(): String {
return "AndroidLintHardcodedDimension"
}
}
The entry in plugin.xml file
<extensions defaultExtensionNs="com.intellij">
<!-- Add your extensions here -->
<!-- <inspectionToolProvider implementation="JavaInspectionProvider"/>-->
<globalInspection shortName="AndroidLintHardcodedDimension" displayName="Hardcoded dimensions"
enabledByDefault="true" level="WARNING"
implementationClass="HardcodedDimensionsInspection"/>
</extensions>
The actual detector
class HardcodedDimensDetector : LayoutDetector() {
override fun getApplicableAttributes(): Collection<String>? {
return Arrays.asList(
// Layouts
ATTR_TEXT
)
}
override fun appliesTo(folderType: ResourceFolderType): Boolean {
return (folderType == ResourceFolderType.LAYOUT ||
folderType == ResourceFolderType.MENU ||
folderType == ResourceFolderType.XML)
}
override fun visitAttribute(context: XmlContext, attribute: Attr) {
val value = attribute.value
}
companion object {
/** The main issue discovered by this detector */
#JvmField
val ISSUE = Issue.create(
id = "HardcodedDimension",
briefDescription = "Hardcoded dimens",
explanation = """
Brief
""",
category = Category.I18N,
priority = 5,
severity = Severity.ERROR,
implementation = Implementation(
HardcodedDimensDetector::class.java,
Scope.RESOURCE_FILE_SCOPE
)
)
}
}
I've expected to hit the breakpoints in any of the functions for Detector but the code is never called. Seems like my detector is not registered. Can you please point me to the missing part, is there a class where I should register my Detector?
Thank you.
The link to the full project: https://github.com/magicbytes/Android-Lint-Inspection

Answer 1

I don't see anything obvious wrong from these snippets. Could you please post on our forum and link to the full sources of your plugin? Thanks. https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200366979-IntelliJ-IDEA-Open-API-and-Plugin-Development

Answer 2

I have a workaround for now, not sure it's the official way to do it. Android Lint has a registry with all the Issue classes (built-in), the class is called LintIdeIssueRegistry. When it runs the Android Lint, it's looking in this registry for Issue processors. Since the list is hardcoded, we need to inject ours in the list. I'm using the following code for that:
val registry = LintIdeIssueRegistry()
val issue = registry.getIssue(HardcodedDimensDetector.ISSUE.id)
if (issue == null) {
val list = registry.issues as MutableList<Issue>
list.add(HardcodedDimensDetector.ISSUE)
}
Hopefully in future we will have a method called addIssue inside the LintIdeIssueRegistry.