generate sonar sonar-project.properties on the fly

Question

I am working in a big multi-module java maven project & my work is to setup reporting sonarQube issue at in the pull request of bitbucket after the build.

I have created the sonar-project.properties according to the project structure, setup the job in jenkins , so far this is working properly.

Now the problem is, as this is the parent of a lot of other projects, lots is new modules/sub-modules kept getting added in the project. Every time there is new module, the sonar-project.properties have to be modified accordingly. Although that is expected, but its forgotten sometimes.

This is the reason I was thinking of, is there a way to generate the sonar-project.properties on the fly before sonar-scanner starts executing.

This is the project structure we are following.

project-root/
    moduleA/
    .
    .
    moduleB/
    submoduleOfmoduleB/
    moduleC/
        submoduleOfmoduleC
        .

Is there any way to generate the sonar-project.properties by reading the pom files or some other way?

Answer 1

You do not need to use sonar-project.properties at all. You can use the sonar-maven-plugin with some standard properties in your pom and new projects are added automatically.

We use the following settings

<sonar.host.url>http://sonar:9000</sonar.host.url>
<sonar.junit.reportsPath>target/surefire-reports</sonar.junit.reportsPath>
<sonar.java.coveragePlugin>jacoco</sonar.java.coveragePlugin>
<sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>target/coverage-reports/jacoco-ut.exec, target/coverage-reports/jacoco-it.exec</sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>
<sonar.exclusions>file:**/generated-sources/**,file:**/pom.xml,file:**/node_modules/**</sonar.exclusions>