Sonarlint cannot run analysis on files in Intellij 2019.1 beta

[martinely95 (Martin)]

For anybody else who ends up here, this is the solution:

SonarLint error during analysis with latest intellij and remote SonarQube server

Hi all, I got the same exception as Florian posted before on a Maven project: sonar.java.source: 1.8 maven.compiler.source: 1.8 maven.compiler.target: 1.8 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 55 To make sure, that the code is compiled for Java 8 I inspected the Maven target directory: $ javap -verbose MyClass.class | grep "major" major version: 52 Environment JDK: 8.0.222 IDE Build version: IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2.2 Build #IU-192.6603.28 September 6, …

• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12836-choose-runtime → and select java 8 runtime, e.g. appears to work fine

Another solution is to upgrade SonarJava on the server to a version greater than 5.8

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