What exactly does saving on `context.module() ' do?

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Currently I have Metrics displaying in the left hand pane within the Measures column inside of the Project View of SQ 7.9 LTS. I currently am setting these Metrics inside of the left column in my own DomainI have made. The line code in question is this.

context.<Integer>newMeasure().forMetric(ExampleMetric).on(context.module()).withValue(exceptions.get(exampleMetricKey)).save();

What exactly does this on() save onto? When this runs I see the the correct value. This is all being done in the Sensor class I have made.

In comparison how does saving onto file differ than with saving onto module()?

Thanks so much!

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You can compute/save a measure at different level. In the past it was possible the save at project/module/folder/file level, but in 7.9 only files and projects are supported.

In a single module project, context.module() is equivalent to context.project().

If you save measures at file level, it is usually required to aggregate them at higher level, using a MeasureComputer. See for example: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-custom-plugin-example/blob/master/src/main/java/org/sonarsource/plugins/example/measures/ComputeSizeAverage.java

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