Specifying version of Sonar plugin

Question

I have a Maven multi-module project and as part of my build I execute

mvn sonar:sonar

I get some unexpected behaviour with a particular maven plugin that there is no need to go into here and after a lot of debugging and trial-and-error, I decided to tweak the particular plugin in question to add some debugging. The plugin in question is the sonar javascript plugin ( https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-javascript ).

I cloned the git repo, incremented the version to 2.16 (latest available is 2.15), modified a logging statement, executed mvn install. Then I went back to my project hoping that when I executed mvn sonar:sonar it would simply pick up the latest version of this plugin available on my local repo. It didn't. I tried adding this to my pom:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.sonarsource.javascript</groupId>
        <artifactId>javascript</artifactId>
        <version>2.16</version>
      </plugin>

Still nothing. The logging statement is unchanged.

So how can I get the sonar execution to pick up my locally installed version of the plugin?

Answer 1

Just install the plugin on your SonarQube server.

Changing the plugin source means that you'll be on your own from their on though. If you've got legitimate issues/feedback with the JavaScript Plugin, then reach out to their maintainers on the SonarQube Google group . Constructive feedback will be heard, you'll get a chance to contribute directly to the sonar-javascript project, and the community we'll be able to benefit from your improvement(s) (rather than you flying solo with custom changes).