Flake8 support

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to use flake8 instead of pylint

Describe the solution you’d like Allow choosing between flake8 and pylint

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Before I opened this issue, I wanted to make a proof of concept to see how easy/difficult would it be to run flake8 using this plugin. I wrote a simple flake report formatter to produce json output that match the output you expect from pylint. Then I changed pylint executable to run flake8 instead after correcting the parameters (i.e --format=json instead of -f json). The plugin worked flawlessly.

Additional context Flake allows passing its output format as parameters like that

flake8 --format="%(path)s:%(row)d:%(col)d:%(code)s:%(text)s"

Then you get output like that

orders/models.py:105:9:F841:local variable 'c' is assigned to but never used
orders/models.py:105:9:WPS111:Found too short name: c < 2
orders/models.py:107:12:F821:undefined name 'z'

In python (I don’t know Java very well), It can be parsed in one line

path, line, column, message_id, message =  violation_line.split(":", maxsplit=4)

Also --rc-file parameter is to be replaced with --config parameter

[dciborow]

[leinardi]

Nice! I think you built it! Try with the runIde task (not 100% sure about the task name, don’t have the PC to check right now).

I’m also going to bed, I’ll check your progress tomorrow 😃