Consider supporting SARIF for Flake8

[reactive-firewall]

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SARIF can be used for both security and for code quality, and Mega-linter already uses flake8, WHY not support SARIF?

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Use something like: https://github.com/reactive-firewall/flake8-cq (see my [bin/Flake8LintCLI.py](https://github.com/reactive-firewall/flake8-cq/blob/master/bin/Flake8LintCLI.py) tool)

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🤷 competing with mega-lint, (_ If you can't beat them, join them _)

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• https://github.com/reactive-firewall/flake8-cq only targets github actions
• [bin/Flake8LintCLI.py](https://github.com/reactive-firewall/flake8-cq/blob/master/bin/Flake8LintCLI.py) tool could probably be adapted to many other SARIF use-cases.

[nvuillam]

@reactive-firewall thanks for your suggestion :)
We implement sarif output for linters that have this capability out of the box, or a well maintained plugin

I did not find that for flake8, except a flake8-sarif package but the repo link leads to a 404

The best would be flake8 to be able to produce sarif out of the box, maybe you could make a PR there ? :)

[reactive-firewall]

I did not find that for flake8, except a flake8-sarif package but the repo link leads to a 404

@nvuillam sorry, the correct links should be:

• bin/Flake8LintCLI.py -- a (IMHO "well") maintained plugin for generating SARIF from flake8 runs

and:

• flake8-sarif

The best would be flake8 to be able to produce sarif out of the box, maybe you could make a PR there ? :)

lol, I concur that it would be nice if flake8 was able to produce sarif out of the box; and you got me there with the PR idea ... flake8 already has some king of plumbing for outputs 🤔, perhaps some-day (if no one beats me to it) 🤷

We implement sarif output for linters that have this capability out of the box, or a well maintained plugin

That's reasonable. I'll leave it to you and your team to decide if my plugin is "well maintained" or not. That's part of the value of open-source (getting to pick and choose). 🙉 My suggestion was just that, a suggestion; feel free to close as "Not planned" if so inclined.

🙇 thanks for your time and efforts, regardless of your path forward.