Startup issues with sonarqube 7.3, clover plugin error

Clover plugin failed to load for Sonarqube 7.3 community addition, using java 1.8.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fail to load plugin Clover [clover]
at org.sonar.server.plugins.ServerExtensionInstaller.installExtensions(ServerExtensionInstaller.java:82)
at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevel4.start(PlatformLevel4.java:586)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform.start(Platform.java:211)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform.startLevel34Containers(Platform.java:185)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform.access$500(Platform.java:46)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform$1.lambda$doRun$0(Platform.java:119)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform$AutoStarterRunnable.runIfNotAborted(Platform.java:371)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform$1.doRun(Platform.java:119)
at org.sonar.server.platform.Platform$AutoStarterRunnable.run(Platform.java:355)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/sonar/api/batch/Sensor
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at org.sonar.classloader.ClassRealm.loadClassFromSelf(ClassRealm.java:125)
at org.sonar.classloader.ParentFirstStrategy.loadClass(ParentFirstStrategy.java:37)
at org.sonar.classloader.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:87)
at org.sonar.classloader.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:76)
at org.sonar.plugins.clover.CloverPlugin.getExtensions(CloverPlugin.java:39)
at org.sonar.api.SonarPlugin.define(SonarPlugin.java:51)
at org.sonar.server.plugins.ServerExtensionInstaller.installExtensions(ServerExtensionInstaller.java:72)
… 9 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sonar.api.batch.Sensor
at org.sonar.classloader.ParentFirstStrategy.loadClass(ParentFirstStrategy.java:39)
at org.sonar.classloader.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:87)
at org.sonar.classloader.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:76)
… 25 common frames omitted

For the record, and to close this thread, the Clover plugin is not compatible past SonarQube 7.2 because in SonarQube 7.3 deprecated APIs on which the Clover plugin depends were dropped.

Thanks Ann, Can you please let me if you are working to bring back the clover plugins for the latest versions, as we use clover for code coverage in all the projects.

Hi,

We are not, because we don’t maintain that plugin.

 
Ann