Jacoco and sonarqube

SonarQube
1
  • Using Sonarqube Community Edition 8.9.2 LTS
  • I am trying to get Jacoco coverage data
  • I have tried to install the jacoco sonar plugin and I get the following error from the web logs in sonarqube:

Web server startup failed: Found a plugin ‘JaCoCo’ in the directory ‘extensions\plugins’ with the same key [jacoco] as a built-in feature ‘JaCoCo’. Please remove ‘extensions\plugins\sonar-jacoco-plugin-1.1.1.1157.jar’.

Should I assume that Jacoco is already built-in in this version? I have tried to find a guide to use Jacoco that is up to date but I couldn´t (Most messages in the forum are from 2019 or 2020).

Also instead of using Maven or any other build tool I would like just to scan a folder of code with jacococli.jar and create a Jacoco XML report to be imported by Sonarqube. Is that possible?

2

Hello Miguel,

You are correct to assume the JaCoCo plugin is already bundled into the core of your Sonarqube Community Edition 8.9.2 LTS
Therefore you can safely remove the ‘extensions\plugins\sonar-jacoco-plugin-1.1.1.1157.jar’ file

As far as SonarQube is concerned, whatever method it takes to create the Jacoco report in XML format is fine. That said , taking advantage of JaCoCo’s report goal in Maven is usually the easiest option.

You could get inspiration from this online example

Eric