[JavaScript] Ability to overwrite using properties file for rules

[Paul Comanici]

Hi,

I have configured an instance of SonarQube and I have a profile set to be used for every project.

Now I want for a specific project to overwrite specific rules. In my case to disable that rule (and others).

Example of my ignore part:

// base config ...

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria=js1,js2

# tab characters should not be used
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js1.ruleKey=javascript:S3499
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js1.resourceKey=**/*.js
// and other ignored rules

Is there something that I'm not doing right? Is there something wrong on how I updated my properties file?

[G. Ann Campbell]

Hi,

You have 2 choices here:

* analyze those projects with a different profile which does not include the rules you want disabled

* use exclusions

In general, I advise that exclusions - especially multi-criteria ones - be set through the UI. It's just tough to get them configured correctly manually like you're trying to do.

Ann

[Paul Comanici]

Thanks Ann for the reply.

I do not want to have new profile as we have a lot of projects and it will be very hard to check what profile I'm updating.

My approach is to have a base profile and every project will update using properties what they want to do specific.

Can you help me with configuring this exception from properties file?

Complete example for my properties file:

sonar.projectKey=PROJ_NAME

sonar.projectName=PROJ_NAME Frontend

sonar.projectVersion=1.34.5

sonar.language=js

sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8

# JavaScript sources

sonar.sources=src/js

# Excluded folders

sonar.exclusions=node_modules, src/assets, src/l10n, src/sass

# Tests folder

sonar.tests=test

# Coverage report

sonar.javascript.lcov.reportPath=coverage/lcov.info

sonar.coverage.exclusions=src/js/constants, src/js/reducers, src/js/index.js, src/js/typedef.js

# Minimum duplication lines

sonar.cpd.js.minimumLines=25

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria=js1,js2

# Grouping of shorthand declarations together in an object

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js1.ruleKey=javascript:S3499

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js1.resourceKey=**/*.js

# Function parameters with default values should be declared after the function parameters without default values

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js2.ruleKey=javascript:S1788

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.js2.resourceKey=**/*.js

[G. Ann Campbell]

Hi Paul,

I'd really rather not get into this. I can't count the number of times I've told people that this is really, really hard to get right via hand-coded properties, and they should use the UI instead. Really.

Ann

but you might try putting your key list and resourceKey values in quotes

[Paul Comanici]

Is there anyone that can help me to overwrite defaults using properties file?