Different lint-options per build type - android-gradle-plugin

Question

I want to have different lint options per build-type.
I tried to simply add the options to the corresponding build types like this:
android {
buildTypes {
debug {
lintOptions {
textReport true
textOutput 'stdout'
warningsAsErrors false
abortOnError true
}
}
release {
lintOptions {
textReport true
textOutput 'stdout'
ignoreWarnings false
warningsAsErrors true
abortOnError true
}
}
}
but this does not work as expected:
e.g. in my project I have some lint warnings, but no errors. Thus I'd expect
./gradlew lintRelease
to fail, but
./gradlew lintDebug
to succeed (with warnings of course).
But this is not the case. With the config shown above, both builds fail.
The strange thing is, that it is dependent on the order: e.g. when I move the whole debug {} block after release {}, then both builds always succeed: so it seems that only the latest options are ever used...
What am I missing - or how to fix this?
I use gradle version 3.3

Answer 1

as a workaround we can use a gradle property which we can set to "debug"/"release": as explained here: Gradle plugin does not propagate debug/release to dependencies - Comment#91
e.g. in the gradle.properties file of the project define a variable:
myBuildType=debug
This will make sure that the default build type is "debug". You can override it via a gradle command line argument
./gradlew.bat -PmyBuildType=release ...
and in the build.gradle file of the project or subprojects:
warningsAsErrors rootProject.properties['myBuildType'] == 'release'

Answer 2

This answer may be helpful to you.
I solved the problem in a different way.
Add this task in your app build.gradle after the android { } block.
task setReleaseLintOptions {
doLast {
configure(android.lintOptions) {
// Put your specific lintOptions here
check 'ExtraTranslation', 'MissingTranslation', 'Untranslatable'
}
}
}
task setDebugLintOptions {
doLast {
configure(android.lintOptions) {
// Put your specific lintOptions here
check 'MissingDefaultResource', 'UnusedResources'
}
}
}
Then you can manually run these tasks before your lint tasks to configure the lint options before that run...
.gradlew setReleaseLintOptions lintRelease
.gradlew setDebugLintOptions lintDebug
This would run the options specified in our custom tasks for the lintRelease or lintDebug task.