What is sonar.organization

[Robert_T (Robert)]

Hello,

We are starting with our sonarcloud trial and our maven builds fail using Gitlab CI with the following error message:

Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar (default-cli) on project yyy: You must define the following mandatory properties for 'xxx:yyy': sonar.organization

Can you point me to the documentation explaining the sonar.organization property, please? What is the expected value and how do I set it? I would prefer if we can set it globally in a Gitlab CI environment variable.

Thank you,
Robert

[Colin]

Hey Robert

When following the tutorial in the UI, you will find instructions how to set it in the context of a Maven project.

[Robert_T (Robert)]

OK, I can see it now - it is supposed to contain the “organization key” as set in the sonarcloud Administration → Organization details → Edit organization key

Is there an environment variable I can set globally in gitlab CI so that I don’t have to modify each and every project pom.xml file, please?

[Colin]

@Robert_T

Is there an environment variable I can set globally in gitlab CI so that I don’t have to modify each and every project pom.xml file, please?

There is not. And, if it’s easier than editing the pom.xml, you can add -Dsonar.organization to your mvn command.

[Robert_T (Robert)]

Thank you Colin, I’ve now managed to get the maven project working with sonarcloud.

The same issue with a “generic” project:

ERROR: Error during SonarScanner execution ERROR: You must define the following mandatory properties for 'XXX:YYY': sonar.organization ERROR: ERROR: Re-run SonarScanner using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

Where do I specify sonar.organization for this use case, please?

It would really simplify things if there was an option to set this globally per gitlab group.

Thanks for your support.

[Colin]

The tutorial offers the next set of instructions (to add a sonar-project.properties file) if you click on continue.

[Robert_T (Robert)]

Perfect, thank you. How could I miss that? It is working now.

[Colin]

And thanks for the feedback regarding setting this globally. I’ll make sure it is filed internally.