Measures API returns no new code metrics

[Colin]

Hey there.

You’re right on the money – GET api/measures/search_history retreives historical metrics, of which new_ metrics will not be included. This is what you would see when browsing, say, the Activity tab of your project.

GET api/measures/component retrieves the present values – what you would see when browsing the project dashboard or the Activity tab.

If you ever have any doubt, this guide is useful:

How to reverse engineer the Sonar Web API

Every action that is taken in SonarQube is driven by the Web API. There is nothing you can do in SonarQube that you cannot do using the Web API. We put a great deal of effort into the UI and UX of our products and sincerely think that most actions should be completed there. Especially when it comes to viewing analysis results, the UI is the best place to view up-to-date information with the right context. We think it is much better that you give access to others to view analysis data …

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