Is it possible to use environment variable in sonar-project.properties file

Question

I am executing sonar through Jenkins build, there is use-case where 'src' location changes depending upon build so i want to use environment variable for specifying 'src' path.

For example in sonar-project.properties i want to specify as shown below:

src= c:/project/workspace instead i want to use src =${SONAR_RUN_WORKSPACE}

Answer 1

You cannot pass env variable into sonar-project.property file.

• If you are creating sonar-project.property file from jenkins, you can use build with param.

  (or)

• Create a sonar-project.properties without sonar.source.

• Create build with param variable {path}, get the src path from user for each build,

• Map the variable with sonar.source=${path} in sh.

• Append sonar.source to sonar-project.properties for each build in sh using (>>) or cmd from jenkins.

  eg) sonar.source="path" >> sonar-project.properties

finally work space contains sonar-project.properties file with src path.

Answer 2

Environment variables are supported in sonar-project.properties starting from SonarQube Scanner version 2.9 (see SQSCANNER-9 ).

So, this should work now:

sonar.sources=${env.SONAR_RUN_WORKSPACE}

Answer 3

Nope, environment variables are not supported in sonar-project.properties . In any case, back to your use-case: you better use a relative path for sonar.sources so that, wherever analysis is ran (ie whatever workspace with Jenkins), sources are always found at the expected place (from the project's base directory).