What are the parameters that are executed between UI and sonar-project.properties?

[Jeremie (Art Kan)]

Work with:

Azure Devops pipelines
SonarScanner for MSBuild 5.2.1
INFO: SonarScanner 4.6.1.2450
INFO: Project root configuration file: D:\a\1.sonarqube\out\sonar-project.properties

I don’t understand why my sonar-project.properties file is not taken into account during the sonar analysis.
I set the exclusion of Scripts file from Angular libraries like these

My sonar-project.properties

sonar.sources= .
sonar.projectKey= myOrganisation_WebApp
sonar.projectName= my-webapp
sonar.exclusions= **/Scripts/**/*

Log

sonar.log.level=DEBUG
sonar.verbose=true

But the scan analyzes them anyway.
Why ?

Results

however when i set the exclusion in the graphical interface the exclusion works fine.

I have the impression that the parameters defined in UI take precedence over the sonar-project.properties file.

Is this really a normal behavior?
It would seem interesting to me that the sonar-project.properties file overloads UI, to allow to keep track of the evolution of this file in source control manager, don’t you think so?

[Joe]

Hi @Jeremie ,

Yes, you have a good point about tracking file changes within a file. sonar-project.properties file does not work with projects scanned with Sonar Scanner for MSBuild. If you want to set those parameters, then either do it within the pipeline.yaml or within your .csproj file, both of which can be version controlled. Here’s an example with adding those sonar analysis parameters to a .csproj file:

@Joe

For customizing your C# project with sonar-project analysis properties, you can add SonarQubeSetting nodes for each analysis property in the *.csproj file for your C# module:

  <ItemGroup>
    <SonarQubeSetting Include="sonar.exclusions">
      <Value>NotAnalyzedFile.cs,Libraries/**/*.*</Value>
    </SonarQubeSetting>
   </ItemGroup>

However, most users with Azure DevOps pipelines version control these Sonar analysis parameters within their pipeline yaml in the PrepareSonarAnalysis task.

Joe