SonarCloud does not include code from a project directory in analysis

[loss0527 (Lucas Sward)]

• Command used: sonar-scanner

• The project is written in C++

• Our project has this directory structure

top_level_directory/other_project_code

top_level_directory/project/sub_project_1

top_level_directory/project/sub_project_2

• We use cmake to generate a compile_commands.json in top_level_directory for sub_project_2

cmake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1 project/sub_project_2

• The sonar-scanner runs in top_level_directory so it can see other_project_code and project

• The sonar-project.properties contains these settings and is in top_level_directory

sonar.sources=project/sub_project_1/source,project/sub_project_2/source,other_project_code/source

sonar.cfamily.compile-commands=compile_commands.json

• The compile_commands.json does contain file names inside of other_project_code/source

• After the sonar-scanner runs, the analysis results don’t show any code from inside of other_project_code/source

• I have also tried compiling both sub_project_1 and sub_project_2 from top_level_directory with the Sonar build wrapper and still did not see any code from other_project_code/source in the analysis

• I am not sure where to go from here, possibly adding the sonar.include setting? Any help is much appreciated. Thank You

[Colin]

Hey there.

Are the files being indexed by the scanner? You can see which files are indexed running sonar-scanner -X

[loss0527 (Lucas Sward)]

Thank you for the great suggestion, the files are being indexed by sonar-scanner. After running it with the -X option, I see that the files I want in other_project_code/source are being excluded by the scm ignore settings. For context, the other_project_code is a git submodule so I’d imagine there is something sonar-scanner is finding (maybe the .gitmodules file? The .gitignore did not have any reference to other_project_code) that makes it ignore that directory.

This is great! Way more information than I had before. Thank you for the reply. If you have any other ideas on how to get sonar-scanner to disregard the scm ignore settings that would be awesome!

[loss0527 (Lucas Sward)]

I was able to get the code to show up in the analysis! I tried removing the .gitmodules file and the .git/modules/other_project_code directory with no success. What ended up solving the problem was running sonar-scanner -Dsonar.scm.exclusions.disabled=true

Thank you for the help!