Hello,
We are using Sonarqube Developer edition 7.9 LTS.
Lately we are getting information about Lines of Code limit.
Metric under Administration/system shows 1.8M lines but when I run via API command for every project:
http://sonarqubeurl/api/measures/component?componentKey="+project_key+"&metricKeys=ncloc
and sum it up it gives me 1.2M
What can cause this difference and is there anyway to fix it ?
Hello @mateusz.kowalski,
There’s no reason for this difference, except if when you use the API you don’t collect the LoCs of all your projects, you forget some of them.
api/projects/search to get the full list of projects (keys), before calling api/measures/component ?Let me know
Hello Olivier,
I compared number of projects and number is the same in UI and via API
Yes, I get list of projects by
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https://sonarqubeurl/api/components/search?qualifiers=TRK
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Hello Mateusz,
The second reason fro discrepancy may be that SonarQube considers, for each project, the largest branch of all to compute the project LoCs. If your largest branch is not the main (~master) branch, then that can also explain why you have this difference.
This happens sometimes with companies using GitFlow branch model and have very little code on master and most of the code on develop
So to get the right project weight you should call api/measures/component?componentKey=<project>&metricKeys=ncloc&branch=<branchKey> for each branch and then keep the largest for the LoC count.
(Note that the branch parameter is an internal parameter, ie not formally part of the public API, but you can use it pretty safely)
Olivier