A question regarding rule "Public types, methods and fields (API) should be documented with Javadoc"

[Xiyao_Gong]

Hi,
I have a question regarding one Sonar rule for Java:
“Public types, methods and fields (API) should be documented with Javadoc”

SonarQube version Community Edition Version 8.9.9 and deployed on web service
Scanner is Maven version: 3.8.4
Java version: 15.0.7

It needs to specify inclusion and execlution parameters according to the rule description:

The default value for exclusion parameter is “.internal.”, but we don’t want to specify any packages to be excluded for this rule. I tried with putting a empty space in the value to override the default value, but it doesnt work, it still takes the default value of “.internal.” .

Do you have any suggestion to not specify anything for the exclusion package? Thanks in advanced.

Best,
Xiyao

[Dorian_Burihabwa]

Hey @Xiyao_Gong,
Looking into the issue, it looks like your best way to include all files is to set the forClasses parameter to **.

Let me know if that works the way you expected it to and maybe we can update the documentation accordingly.

Cheers,

Dorian