How to make Sonar ignore some classes for codeCoverage metric?

Question

I have a Sonar profile in Maven. Everything works fine except the code coverage metric. I want to make Sonar ignore some classes only for the code coverage metric. I have th

Answer 1

Accordingly to this document for SonarQube 7.1

sonar.exclusions - Comma-delimited list of file path patterns to be excluded from analysis sonar.coverage.exclusions - Comma-delimited list of file path patterns to be excluded from coverage calculations

This document gives some examples on how to create path patterns

# Exclude all classes ending by "Bean"
# Matches org/sonar.api/MyBean.java, org/sonar/util/MyOtherBean.java, org/sonar/util/MyDTO.java, etc.
sonar.exclusions=**/*Bean.java,**/*DTO.java

# Exclude all classes in the "src/main/java/org/sonar" directory
# Matches src/main/java/org/sonar/MyClass.java, src/main/java/org/sonar/MyOtherClass.java
# But does not match src/main/java/org/sonar/util/MyClassUtil.java
sonar.exclusions=src/main/java/org/sonar/*

# Exclude all COBOL programs in the "bank" directory and its sub-directories
# Matches bank/ZTR00021.cbl, bank/data/CBR00354.cbl, bank/data/REM012345.cob
sonar.exclusions=bank/**/*

# Exclude all COBOL programs in the "bank" directory and its sub-directories whose extension is .cbl
# Matches bank/ZTR00021.cbl, bank/data/CBR00354.cbl
sonar.exclusions=bank/**/*.cbl

If you are using Maven for your project, Maven command line parameters can be passed like this for example -Dsonar.coverage.exclusions=**/config/*,**/model/*

I was having problem with excluding single class explicitly. Below my observations:

**/*GlobalExceptionhandler.java - not working for some reason, I was expecting such syntax should work
com/some/package/name/GlobalExceptionhandler.java - not working
src/main/java/com/some/package/name/GlobalExceptionhandler.java - good, class excluded explicitly without using wildcards