How to exclude whole folder but keep certain files?

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Hi guys. I am using SonarQube Cloud to analyse coverage from my codebase. I have a structure like:

/**importantPackage1**
/**importnatPackage2**
/nonImportantPackage3
    nonImportantPackage3/**ImportantFile**.kt
    nonImportantPackage3/NonImportantFile.kt
    nonImportantPackage3/...

The thing is: I want to exclude “nonImportantPackage3” but I want to keep “ImportantFile” within it. I tried this:

[...]
        property "sonar.coverage.exclusions", "**/otherNonImportatnPackage/**/* ," +
                "**/nonImportantPackage3/**/*"
        property "sonar.coverage.inclusions", "**/nonImportantPackage3/**/*ImportantFile.kt"
        [...]

But it didn’t work, is there something I’m missing here?

Thanks

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

First, sonar.coverage.exclusions only excludes code from consideration for coverage metrics.

If you want to completely ignore code, then you should be dealing with a plain sonar.exclusions parameter. However, in your case I would actually recommend sonar.inclusions instead. E.G.

sonar.inclusions=**/importantPackage1/**/*, **/importantPackage2/**/*, **/nonImportantPackage3/**/ImportantFile.kt

Note here how I’ve specified the paths with /**/, because the recognized patterns are:

  • ** 0-n directories
  • * 0-n characters

Now, if we weren’t dealing with wildcards, I’d just tell you to narrow sonar.sources:

sonar.sources=foo/bar/importantPackage1, foo/baz/importantPackage2, foo/biz/NonImportantPackage/ImportantFile.kt

 
HTH,
Ann