Severity

Note: This will be replaced by SeverityLevel in future versions of Detekt.

Rules can classified into different severity grades. Maintainer can choose a grade which is most harmful to their projects.

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Represents clean coding violations which may lead to maintainability issues.

Inspections in this category detect violations of code syntax styles.

Corresponds to issues that do not prevent the code from working, but may nevertheless represent coding inefficiencies.

Corresponds to coding mistakes which could lead to unwanted behavior.

Represents code quality issues which only slightly impact the code quality.

Issues in this category make the source code confusing and difficult to maintain.

Places in the source code that can be exploited and possibly result in significant damage.

Places in the source code which degrade the performance of the application.