SonarQube exclude Maven module

Question

I'm running sonar-5.1.2 with Maven / Jenkins CI.

After googling and looking through similar questions (most of them are dated back to 2010-2012), it is still not clear how to exclude a particular Maven module from multi-module Maven project.

Module Exclusions property is deprecated since version 4.3 and should not be used anymore.

We have duplicating packages in different modules:

root pom.xml
|-module1
  |-my.package.com
|-module2
  |-my.package.com

Is it possible to exclude only files from module2/my.package.com but include module1/my.package.com?

SonarQube analysis is triggered by https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SonarQube+plugin post build action

Answer 1

Remove module2 in your root pom.xml.

<modules> <module>module1<module> </modules>

Answer 2

There are two documented options to exclude a module from a SonarQube analysis; quoting:

You can either:

• use build profiles to exclude some module (like for integration tests)
• use Advanced Reactor Options (such as "-pl"). For example mvn sonar:sonar -pl !module2

Since you are using Jenkins, maybe the simpler solution is to use the -pl option. This way, you won't change any configuration in your Maven project and you will only change Jenkins configuration.

Answer 3

As documented here you can define property

<sonar.skip>true</sonar.skip>

in the pom.xml of the module you want to exclude