How to import PMD-apex ruleset into EE Sonarqube?

I am using Sonarqube (Enterprise Edition v9.3) as our code scanner for a Salesforce project. I am confused about how to add our customised PMD ruleset into the Sonarqube server so it checks our codes based on my rules. But I don’t know how to implement that.

I tried to import Xpath but that does not support Apex.

The code repo is Azure DevOps and connected with Azure Pipeline.

Do I need to add any plugins?

Many thanks!!

Hey there.

As noted in the documentation on Importing Third-Party Issues | SonarQube Docs – you can pass PMD reports generated in your pipeline to sonar.apex.pmd.reportPaths to have the issues fed into SonarQube.

Hi Colin,

Thank you for your suggestion. But I am considering using Sonarqube as Code Scanner. I want the Sonarqube to analyse Apex code directly instead of just analysing and storing the result generated by other Code Scanner. So I am wondering if I can upload any customized rules to the Sonarqube.

Besides, on the Sonarqube platform, the sonar.apex.pmd.reportPaths requires coverage report file (test-result-codecoverage.json) generated by Salesforce CLI test command for Apex. Does it accept both PMD and Salesforce CLI results?

Thank you very much for your answer.

Best Wishes

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