Executes a sonar scan, waits for it complete, and then returns the information on completed scan. This operation takes inputs for both a Sonar project properties path and an analysis properties file but only requires one. If both are provided, the plugin will use the analysis properties and do nothing with the path. This operation only returns information including but not limited to quality gate status, dashboard url, task Id, analysis Id, and task status.

There are a significant amount of analysis parameters available to augment a Sonar scan. It is recommended to research which parameters are necessary for your projects and sonar scans.

Analysis Tool Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
SonarQube instance URL	FDSONARQUBEACCT_INSTANCE_URL	Yes	SonarQube Server Instance URL (example: https://localhost:9000)
SonarQube Token	FDSONARQUBEACCT_TOKEN	No	SonarQube Server Token provides credentials to run code scans or to invoke web services as a replacement of the user login. Provide a token or username and password.
SonarQube Username	FDSONARQUBEACCT_USERNAME	No	The username for your SonarQube Server Instance. Provide a token or username and password.
SonarQube Password	FDSONARQUBEACCT_PASSWORD	No	The password for your SonarQube Server Instance. Provide a token or username and password.
SonarQube Client path	FDSONARQUBEACCT_SONAR_HOME	No	SonarQube Client path in the server (e.g. /u01/sonarClinet/sonar-scanner-3.1.0.1141-linux/bin)

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Inputs

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description
SonarQube Account Code	FDSQ_INP_ANALYSIS_TOOL_ACCOUNT_CODE	Yes	The SonarQube account with all the required properties like Sonar Scanner Home, Instance Url, Token for running SonarQube Instance.
Sonar Project Properties Path	FDSQ_INP_PROPERTIES_FILE_PATH	No	Absolute file path of the sonar-project.properties file.
Analysis Properties	FDSQ_INP_ANALYSIS_PROPERTIES	No	Define the sonar project properties manually. This will override all other fields. Required property: sonar.projectKey

Outputs

Output Name	Description
FDSQ_OUT_QUALITY_GATE_STATUS	Defines the status of the project based on all the quality gate(s) defined for the project. Possible values: OK, WARN, ERROR, NONE. The NONE status is returned when there is no quality gate associated with the analysis.
FDSQ_OUT_DASHBOARD_URL	SonarQube instance dashboard url. Note that you will be able to access the updated dashboard once the server has processed the submitted analysis report.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_ID	Id of the task being retrieved.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_TYPE	Task type. Possible Values: REPORT
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_COMPONENT_ID	Component Id.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_COMPONENT_KEY	Component Key.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_COMPONENT_NAME	Component Name.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_COMPONENT_QUALIFIER	Component Qualifier.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_ANALYSIS_ID	Analysis Id.
FDSQ_OUT_TASK_STATUS	Task status. Possible values: SUCCESS, FAILED, CANCELED, PENDING, IN_PROGRESS

Artifacts

This operation doesn’t consume or produce any artifacts.

Endpoint Selection

This operation delegates the selection to the workflow developer to determine.

Endpoint Execution

This operations delegates the execution to the workflow developer to decide.

Special Considerations

SonarQube instance required

Download the SonarQube Community Edition.
As a non-root user, unzip it, let's say in C:\sonarqube or /opt/sonarqube.

As anon-rootuser, start the SonarQube Server:

# On Windows, execute:
C:\sonarqube\bin\windows-x86-xx\StartSonar.bat

# On other operating systems, as a non-root user execute:
/opt/sonarqube/bin/[OS]/sonar.sh console

If you're having trouble starting your server for the first time (or any subsequent time!) the first thing to do is check your server logs. You'll find them in $SONARQUBE_HOME/logs:

sonar.log - Log for the main process. Holds general information about startup and shutdown. You'll get overall status here but not details. Look to the other logs for that.
web.log - Information about initial connection to the database, database migration and reindexing, and the processing of HTTP requests. This includes database and search engine logs related to those requests.
ce.log - Information about background task processing and the database and search engine logs related to those tasks.
es.log - Ops information from the search engine, such as Elasticsearch startup, health status changes, cluster-, node- and index-level operations, etc.

Log in to http://localhost:9000 with System Administrator credentials (login=admin, password=admin).
Click the Create new project button to analyze your first project.

Sonar Scanner installed on target environment
- Download the CLI Sonar Scanner

Example

Step 1: Gather authentication information.

If you choose to use a token over username and password for authentication you can generate it on your SonarQube Server. To get a SonarQube Token: login to your SonarQube Instance (http://host:port ex: http://localhost:9000/) and navigate to My Account->Security->Generate New Token. Make sure you copy and save this token somewhere secure because after you leave this screen you will not be able to see your token again.

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Step 2: Create a SonarQube Analysis Tool Account

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Under SonarQube Account define:
- SonarQube Instance URL (http://host:port with no extra "/" at the end).
- Token OR username AND password for SonarQube Instance.

Step 3: Set your host url

Navigate to your SonarQube installation location. We'll refer to it as $install_directory in the next steps.

Update the global settings to point to your SonarQube server by editing $install_directory/conf/sonar-scanner.properties:

#----- Default SonarQube server
#sonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000 #Don't forget to remove the "#" here if it is there by default

Step 4: Define sonar project properties (2 options)

Option 1: Create a configuration file in the root directory of the project and name it sonar-project.properties, then give the file path to this file under Sonar Project Properties Path.

Option 2: Create the sonar project properties from the Workflow screen under Analysis Properties.

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Sonar Project Properties Path or Analysis Properties is required but not both. Notice both are defined in this example, therefore, the analysis properties will take precedence.

Omitting sonar.sources or sonar.projectBaseDir properties means the sonar scan will default to scanning all files in the base directory of the workflow execution → Endpoint Base Directory/ProjectId/WorkflowExecutionId (I.E.: prod/flexdeploy/fdtlt04/work/302231/198535/)

For a list of all possible properties available visit SonarQube Analysis Properties.

Step 5: Define output names for FDSQ_OUT_TASK_ID and FDSQ_OUT_DASHBOARD_URL and create variables with matching names.

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Step 6: Create a project, select your sonar scan workflow, and instance.

Step 7: Run the workflow to start your sonar scan.

Example output:

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