How to find an issue in feature branch that has occured in main brach

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Hi Team,

I have used issues web api to filter out issues on main branch. I got the required results, 3 issues found on sonar main branch.
Example:
[
“Issue1”:{“key”:“key1”},
“Issue2”:{“key”:“key2”},
“Issue3”:{“key”:“key3”},
]

If I want to find same issues on feature_branch is it possible?
I know sonar has different keys for each issue (its unique identifier).

Thanks,
Pavan

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Hi Pavan,

Welcome to the community!

You’re going to need to work based on issue characteristics.

The docs discuss how analysis determines whether an issue is “new” and it should be a good guide for this.

 
Ann

5

Thank you Ann.
I am trying to search for same issue across 2 or more branches.
Like if I am able to find the issue1 in branch1.
I would like to get the same issue1 in branch2.
Though the issue-key would change across the branch but hash shall remain the same is my understanding.

I am using web api, but searching using hash is returning all the issues matching the hash. I am looking same issue on 2 different branches.

Thanks,
Pavan

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Would the below api help me fetch the same issue on different branch.
/api/issues/search?componentKeys=&severities=&statuses=&branch=&hash=&rules=

If the same violation is repeated in same file multiple times this may fail as I am not using line no#

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Hi,

Yes, you would need to narrow by &branch= to not get issues from all branches.

 
HTH,
Ann

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Thank you.
In the same context of finding same issue in different branches.
How to identify the same issues, if the same rule has been violated in same file (componentKeys=filename)?

Example:
If “file1” has “issue1”, “issue2” on lineno #10 and #15 respectively on “rule1” analysis on “integration” branch.

Now if I want to find same 2 issues on “master”, would the below api help me.

/api/issues/search?componentKeys=project1:file1&severities=BLOCKER&statuses=OPEN&branch=master&hash=issue_hash&rules=rule1

Sonarqube is returning 2 issues with same hash on master. How to know which issue on integration branch corresponds to master? As both would be having same hash.

Like (same hash, different issues)
issue1_on_integration = issue1_on_master
issue2_on_integration = issue2_on_master

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Hi,

I recommend working from SonarQube’s own algorithm to determind whether issues are new or a match to an existing issue.

 
HTH,
Ann