Sonar.exclusions not working properly with SonarQubePrepare task in our Azure Pipeline script

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  • which versions are you using (SonarQube, Scanner, Plugin, and any relevant extension) → SonarQube version 10.6.0.92116 with SonarQubePrepare@6 task template
  • how is SonarQube deployed: zip, Docker, Helm → Docker
  • what are you trying to achieve → our pipline task for the preparation of SonarQube quality check analysis are configured as follows:
  task: SonarQubePrepare@6
            inputs:
              SonarQube: 'SonarQube'
              scannerMode: 'MSBuild'
              projectKey: 'OurKey'
              extraProperties: |
                sonar.coverageReportPaths="$(SonarQubeCoverageFile)"
                sonar.cs.vstest.reportsPath="$(Agent.TempDirectory)/**/*.trx"
                sonar.exclusions="$(SonarQubeExclusions)"

where the variable “SonarQubeExclusions” is defined as follows:

SonarQubeExclusions: OurProjectLocation/SubFolder1/**/*, OurProjectLocation/SubFolder2/**/*, OurProjectLocation/SubFolder3/**/*

While running the Analyze task SonarQube reports that it will exclude the folders like defined, but when checking the resulting analysis reports it wasn’t excluded properly.

  • what have you tried so far to achieve this → I’ve added the exact same exclusion pattern to Analysis Scope → Source File Exclusions settings within the General Project Settings provided by the web interface of SonarQube and it worked as intended.
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Hey there.

Since these exclusions get evaluated at the module level, I suggest you add a folder wildcard before each (so OurProjectLocation/SubFolder1/**/* becomes **/OurProjectLocation/SubFolder1/**/*)

3

Hi,

thanks for the quick support. Seems to working now!

Best regards,
Florian

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