SonarQube 5.5 doesn't pick javascript files in a Java application

Question

We are using Sonar 5.5 and we have a number of js files in 'resource' folder in a maven structured application. This is not a web application so there is no 'webapp' folder. The js files are bundled in an executable jar file using Spring boot.

I searched everywhere and based on the following link, Sonar already supports multi-language:

Does Sonar support multiple language in same project?

However, it doesn't work in our application. It doesn't seem any special configuration for that to happen.

I made a comment on the above link a while ago but haven't got any answer. I suspect, js files are detected by Sonar only if they are located in 'webapp' folder. I can't find any documentation on this.

We are using maven sonar plugin to analyze the project:

mvn sonar:sonar

Plugins and versions installed:

Git 2.1
C#  5.0
Java 3.13.1
Javascript 2.11

Answer 1

Specify where your sources are located. If you are using Maven, the easiest way is to specify it via -Dsonar.sources=src/main:

mvn -Dsonar.sources=src/main sonar:sonar