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Kory
Kory

Reputation: 477

SonarQube Findbugs "needs sources to be compiled"

I am trying to get SonarQube findbugs working, but when I try to run it I get the error: "Findbugs needs sources to be compiled. Please build project before executing sonar and check the location of compiled classes."

sonar.sources is set to a folder with all of my src files and sonar.binaries is set to a folder with all of my class and jar files. This layout works with findbugs for one of my projects, but on the other I get the above error.

How can I fix this, and is there a certain folder FindBugs needs classes/jars in to work?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 20494

Answers (5)

Anthony E.
Anthony E.

Reputation: 43

SonarQube requires source code to be built before it analyzes it. This is going to differ depending on how you are building it, but check here and click on your building platform.

For example: If you were using SonarQube to analyze a project with Maven, you must issue the following commands in this order (assuming you followed the steps according to this maven configuration page, which is linked as an option in the first link):

mvn clean install
mvn sonar:sonar

Thus, you must build the code before any sonar analysis can be done. Also note, you must issue these commands separately and you should wait for the install to finish completely before running sonar.

Upvotes: 3

Erd
Erd

Reputation: 1

sonar property names have changed, see http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/PLUG/Java+Plugin+and+Bytecode

e.g. sonar.java.binaries replaces sonar.binaries for plugin version > 2.5

This fixed my findbugs issue.

Upvotes: 0

Kevin Sarabi
Kevin Sarabi

Reputation: 11

If you do not want to compile and use sonar-runner as before , you can create a folder and put a valid java class there and execute as below:

sonar-runner -Dsonar.java.binaries=folder path

Upvotes: 1

other name
other name

Reputation: 106

Add property 

sonar.binaries=${workspace}/proy/build/

To Sonar Configuration. If you ar using several proyects to build, use coma separed.

Upvotes: 9

Kraal
Kraal

Reputation: 2867

I've faced the same issue in the past.

Check that you don't have a folder somewhere under the src/main folder containing only a pkg-info.java file. These files are javadoc files and are thus not compiled. However, the folder is created in target/classes, findbugs detects it but finds no .class which causes a crash with the “needs sources to be compiled” message.

The solution is to remove the folder with the pkg-info.java file or add real java sources files in it (which will be compiled and make findubgs happy.)

Upvotes: 1

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