Detekt.xml report could not be generated in gitlab pipeline

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Dear Experts, I dont know if this place is right address to solve my problem. But I still want to try my chance. We want to use detekt library to provide static code analysis in our android project. But detekt does not work as expected in pipeline.

Expected Behavior

detekt.xml report should be always generated in gitlab pipeline.

Observed Behavior

detekt.xml report is generated only when detekt job passed successfully in gitlab pipeline. if detekt job fails, report could not be generated. What I mean by "failing" is when there is such a warning, detekt job fails as you know.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:detekt'.
> Analysis failed with 2 weighted issues.

When I run the same task in Android studio, detek job fails because of weighted issues and I can view the xml report in build directory. For the same scenario, in gitlab pipeline, report could not be generated because job fails. So there is no artifact for report.

Steps to Reproduce

gitlab-ci.yml file:

detekt:
  stage: codequality
  script:
    - ./gradlew detekt
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/build/reports

detekt.gradle

apply plugin: "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt"

detekt {
    toolVersion = Versions.detekt
    config = files("../config/detekt/detekt.yml")
    buildUponDefaultConfig = true
}

tasks.named("detekt").configure {
    reports {
        xml.required.set(true)
        xml.outputLocation.set(file("build/reports/detekt.xml"))
        html.required.set(true)
        html.outputLocation.set(file("$buildDir/reports/detekt.html"))
        txt.required.set(false)
        sarif.required.set(false)
        md.required.set(false)
    }
}

Context

We need detekt.xml reports for our code review processes and sonarqube reports.

Your Environment

detekt: 1.21.0 gradle: 7.5.1 gitlab-runner 14.10.1