Sonar properties file - ignoring doesn't work

Question

Issue: I am trying to set the sonar-project.properties to ignore a module or a package and it doesn't work.

I am totally new to Sonar and I'm using the eclipse plugin on a java maven project and I'm trying to ignore stuff (e.g. a package or a module) but the sonar-project.properties file doesn't seem to have any effect.

I have only one properties file in the root of my project. And there are 2 modules (one for java and one for webapp)

sonar.projectKey=projectname
sonar.projectName=projectname
sonar.projectVersion=1.0

sonar.modules=javamodule,webapp
sonar.sources=src/main/
sonar.tests=src/test/java
sonar.java.binaries=target/classes
sonar.java.libraries=../*/target/**/*.jar

If I try to exclude something like

sonar.exclusions=com/package/files/**/*

or

webapp.sonar.exclusions=resources/**/*

then I do analyze on the module and nothing was ignored. I also tried adding individual properties files inside the modules..

Also, I would like to ignore the whole webapp module. Should I just not declare it, or is there some other way?

Edit:

For example's sake, this is my package structure

javamodule
- src/main/java
    - com/package/files
- src/main/resources
- src/test/java
- src/test/resources

webapp
- src/main/resources
- src/main/webapp

Answer 1

The SonarQube Eclipse plugin only takes into account exclusions set through the web interface. It doesn't take into account exclusions set in configuration files such as sonar-project.properties files.