SonarLint IntelliJ Plugin, Connected Mode & Kotlin

[fram...@googlemail.com]

Hello,

we have Kotlin Support activated on our local SonarQube Server and do get corresponding warnings and errors regrading our code. Wewould also like to see these in our local development environment using IntelliJ IDEA. We thus installed the corresponding SonarLint Plugin, but it only shows a subset of errors and waring, comming from a rather small number of activated plugins on the SonarQube Server. Especially Kotlion is missing. It sounds like there is a principal technical constraits behind this. Thus my question: Is is possible to show kotlin errors and warning in IDEA using SonarLint? Can be SonarLint extended to do this? if yes, is this on the road map? If not, are there any alternatives?

Gruß...
   Tim

[janos....@sonarsource.com]

Hi Tim,

When used in connected mode, SonarLint uses the plugins from the SonarQube server. However, not all the plugins, only the ones created by SonarSource, which are verified to have acceptable performance in the IDE. This is why you won't see kotlin issues, because the kotlin plugin is not a product of SonarSource, and therefore not used in SonarLint. We are considering to allow such external plugins, but there is no concrete plan yet. On the other hand we plan to release a kotlin plugin soon.

Cheers,

Janos