“Prepare analysis on SonarQube” Azure DevOps task v5.6.0 SonarScanner for MSBuild 5.7.1
Pipeline which was running successfullly on 2022-07-04,
started failing on 2022-07-05 with message:
(…).sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets(241,5): error : Failed to parse properties from the environment variable ‘SONARQUBE_SCANNER_PARAMS’ because ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’. Could not find or load a specific file. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131621)’. [(…).csproj] [(…)\MasterBuild.proj]
Answering your questiion, yes we are referencing Newtonsoft.Json a lot, the version we used in the sources for this pipeline was 11.0.2.
here goes the exact error from our VisualStudio Build pipeline step:
##[error]D:\B\A1_work\3523.sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets(241,5): Error : Failed to parse properties from the environment variable ‘SONARQUBE_SCANNER_PARAMS’ because ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’. Could not find or load a specific file. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131621)’. [D:\B\A1_work\3523\s\Foundation\APIs\Common\Common.csproj]
D:\B\A1_work\3523.sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets(241,5): error : Failed to parse properties from the environment variable ‘SONARQUBE_SCANNER_PARAMS’ because ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’. Could not find or load a specific file. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131621)’. [D:\B\A1_work\3523\s\Foundation\APIs\Common\Common.csproj] [D:\B\A1_work\3523\s\Foundation\Build\Tasks\MasterBuild.proj]
Just in order to reanimate our pipelines, we disabled the “Prepare analysis on SonarQube” step temporarily.
Sorry, when I meant build I meant all the steps, also the MSBuild verbose logs (this is the step where it’s failing, from what I understand). And for that you’ll need to pass /v:d.
Thanks, however this doesn’t help me understand why the task is not picking up the correct Newtonsoft version.
In PR # 1246 I made a necessary change to copy Newtonsoft.Json.dll (we reference v 13) to the .sonarqube\bin folder which is present in the base directory of the analysis. That folder has the DLLs with the custom Sonar tasks that get executed during the build to prepare the analysis that happens during the compilation.
This build fails because the compiler doesn’t manage to reference that version of Newtonsoft (or doesn’t reference it at all for any reason).
So I need to look at the csc.exe command with all its long list of parameters (it will show all the DLLs that get passed).
For reference, I see from the logs that you use Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.9.20+g88f5fadfbe for .NET Core - what .NET Core version are you using? If it’s .NET Core 2.1, I believe it might fail because that one references an older version of Newtonsoft (although in our tests with dotnet core 2.1 it doesn’t, there may be something stranger happening).
Can you help me please with the csc.exe command from the logs? Or share the full log - I’m not afraid of big log files, and having access to the full logs enables me to do my search.
I am having the same exact problem. An analysis that was working correctly until July 1st, started to break today (July 5th). Same exact error:
##[error]D:\a\1\.sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets(241,5): Error : Failed to parse properties from the environment variable 'SONARQUBE_SCANNER_PARAMS' because 'Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'. Could not find or load a specific file. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131621)'.
D:\a\1\.sonarqube\bin\targets\SonarQube.Integration.targets(241,5): error : Failed to parse properties from the environment variable 'SONARQUBE_SCANNER_PARAMS' because 'Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=13.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'. Could not find or load a specific file. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131621)'. [D:\a\1\s\myWorld\myWorld.csproj]
Our project wasn’t referencing Neewtonsoft.JSON before and we added the reference to see if it fixes but we had no luck, same error.
We’ve published new versions of the Azure DevOps extensions, reverting the Scanner for .NET (S4NET) to the previous version (5.6.0) - this should unblock you.
In any case, the root cause is the Newtonsoft DLL not being resolved and we still do not understand this behaviour in your build environment.
@pawel.grzywacz , @caraujo84 Are you using Microsoft hosted agents or self-hosted agents for your builds?
@pawel.grzywacz The logs say Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.9.20+g88f5fadfbe for .NET Core, so I would assume there is some .NET Core installation on the box. In any case, the .NET Core version of MSBuild is the one doing the build (even if it’s a .NET Framework project). Is it the case?
Thanks for confirming this assumption @caraujo84 and @pawel.grzywacz . We’ve done tests with machines with .NET Core 2.1, however we might have missed something.
However we’ve not put that in practice yet, for now it’s deprecated. In the next months we will stop supporting it, though, so I encourage you to use .NET Core Runtime versions supported by Microsoft: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core . It’s fine if your projects are still targeting .NET Core 2.1, as long as the runtime is supported (the SDK).
@pawel.grzywacz , @caraujo84 - I will continue on private threads to better understand your environments and why this failure occurs, because we still don’t have a reproducer for the problems you encounter.