I am using SonarLint connected to a SonarQube instance where I’ve overwritten the default severity for some rules. I’ve noticed that while the “On-The-Fly”-view correctly displays the severity configured in SonarQube, the “Rule Description”-view always shows the rule’s default severity. You can see an example of this inconsistency in the attached screenshot:
I’ve investigated the issue and the results are in: The problem is actually none but intended, but let me explain - the actual problem in this situation is the UX which is not very good, but I created a ticket for that to be resolved in the near future: SLE-661
The SonarLint On-The-Fly view shows the actual issue (which you have overwritten on your SQ instance, e.g. in the Quality Profile), an issue being the occurance of the violation of a rule. The SonarLint Rule Description view on the other hand shows the global definition of the rule itself.
Therefore a violation of any rule is marked as an issue - you can override the severity of any issue but not the rule itself.
The ticket I created will focus on the UX regarding such a problem which can be confusion to say at least - and I agree. We’ll update the user experience to provide information for you as a user not only in the documentation but in the IDE itself.
