I'm looking to integrate pants with wizcli docker container scanning. My question is around how best to do that. I think using adhoc_tool is the easiest way to do it, but what I'm wondering is how can I put that behind the check goal? I also don't know if that even makes sense 🙂

Yeah, by default it would make sense to try it out using adhoc tools (https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.19/docs/ad-hoc-tools/integrating-new-tools-without-plugins) I think this would make it a

run

goal by default, unsure offhandedly if you could turn that into a

check

I think there was a ticekt to expose adhoc tools to some more goals, but

pants run

seems reasonable as a start

system_binary + adhoc_tool, here we come!

Although, I might be making up the inability to use it with a goal - I haven't dug into it too much recently as my workflow with adhoc tools works for me, https://github.com/pantsbuild/example-adhoc I see the

export-codegen

goal used here

weird, nothing actually references that goal in the adhoc_tool target definition.

Yeah, I haven't tested it though - so I have no idea if it works. But I was quite surprised to read that a few minutes ago

There is also

code_quality_tool

in 2.20

interesting idea.