Disable rule in sonar

Question

I want to disable a rule from Sonar so it doesn\'t show the results in the web page. In my case I want to hide (or not capture) the results about trailing comments.

Answer 1

You have to remove this rule in the quality profile that you are using to analyse your project.

Please refer to the documentation that describes all this: Quality Profiles in Sonar.

Answer 2

Adding to @Vladmir's answer in a new answer as I am not able to comment. You can not modify the built-in profiles. If you don't see the option of Deavtivate, then copy the profile and set it as default. Now you will see the options to activate/deactivate.

Answer 3

An additional note for people ending up on this thread. I tested this quite a lot and finally found that setting common rules (anything that starts with "common-xxxx") from scanner side (pom, command line etc) will be ignored and it wont work. The language specific rules can be passed line arguments and thats why the "squid:S00105" rule is getting ignored correctly. Here is the issue link on the SonarQube JIRA board and it says that it "wont be fixed".

https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONAR-8230

Here is the link to my answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60570763/1766402 on how to set it from UI.

Answer 4

The right way to do is to put something like this on sonar-project.properties file per project:

sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria=e1,e2
# tab characters should not be used
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.e1.ruleKey=squid:S00105
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.e1.resourceKey=**/*.java
# right curly braces should be on a new line
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.e2.ruleKey=squid:RightCurlyBraceStartLineCheck
sonar.issue.ignore.multicriteria.e2.resourceKey=**/*.java

Answer 5

In web interface for particular rule just press Deactivate button: