Add own custum rules and change exiting rule in Sonarlint for Eclipse

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Hi All,

I’m new in Sonarlint and currently exploring the feasibility to use it for my project, I have the following two basic queries:

  1. Can one change the existing rules? For example, rule S138 is “Method should not have too many lines”. Can I change the default threshold limit based on the project requirement?
  2. Can one add a custom rule in Sonarlint?

Please help.

Thanks in advance!

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Hello!

Both use cases are supported through connected mode with SonarQube or SonarCloud.

  1. You won’t be able to configure the threshold in SonarLint; however if you have a SonarQube instance, you can define a custom quality profile with a custom threshold (and share it with your team)
  2. You can develop custom rules in a SonarQube plugin, and benefit from it in connected mode