Advanced parameters

sonar.importSources

Sometimes, for security or other reasons, project sources must not be stored and displayed.

true

since 1.5

sonar.sourceEncoding

Encoding of source files. Example of values: UTF-8, MacRoman, Shift_JIS. This property can be replaced by the standard property 'project.build.sourceEncoding' in Maven projects.

System encoding

sonar.projectDate

It becomes quickly necessary to input historical data and to highlight some events. It is possible by going for example in a subversion tag and use the sonar.projectDate option. Format is yyyy-MM-dd, for example 2010-12-25. Be careful : when using this sonar.projectDate, no other Sonar analysis should run at the same time as this property doesn't support parallel runs. 

Current date

since 1.5

sonar.projectVersion

The project version, usually overridden when sonar.projectDate is set

Version as defined in project

since 1.5

sonar.language

Sets the language of source code. By default, Sonar is using Java source code analysers. If a Sonar plugin allows to analyse another given language, the associated source code analysers can be activated with the property 'sonar.language'.

java

since 2.0

sonar.exclusions

Exclude files from analysis. This property is usually set in the page Settings of the project. It's a comma separated list of wildcard patterns. Paths are defined from the source base directory. Example: com/mycompany/*/.java,**/*Dummy.java

since 1.8

sonar.skippedModules

Some project modules should not be analyzed and consolidated with global project measures, for instance samples, integration tests or generated code.
If a module's artifactId differs from its module name (the directory name) : it is the artifactId that should be use instead of the module name. Format is a comma-separated list of modules : module1_toexclude,module2_toexclude.

since 1.5

sonar.includedModules

Comma-separated list of the modules to analyse, all other modules are automatically ignored. Be careful : the root project must be added to the list.
If a module's artifactId differs from its module name (the directory name) : it is the artifactId that should be use instead of the module name.

since 2.2

sonar.branch

Manage SCM branches. Two branches of the same project are considered as different projects in Sonar.

since 1.10

sonar.profile

Through the Sonar web interface, you can define as many quality profiles as you want and you can easily associate one of this quality profile to a given project. You can also make this association by using the property "sonar.profile". The value of this property overload any configuration made in the Sonar web interface.

since 1.6

sonar.skipDesign

Deactivate Java bytecode analysis. Since Sonar 2.0, the java bytecode is analyzed by Sonar in order to extract dependencies between packages and files. Those dependencies are used for instance to display the DSM (Dependency System Matrix). This bytecode analysis can be deactivated.

false

since 2.0

sonar.phase

Run maven phase or goal prior to analysis. When Sonar needs a phase or maven goal to be executed prior to analysis, this parameter can be used. For example sonar.phase=generate-sources. This property is used only for Maven analysis.

since 1.10

sonar.host.connectTimeoutMs and sonar.host.readTimeoutMs

Increasing HTTP timeouts of requests to Sonar server. The Maven plugin executes some HTTP requests to the Sonar server. Two timeouts makes the call fail if the server connection is too slow. In such a case the timeouts can be increased from Maven properties.

respectively 30'000 and 60'000 milliseconds

since 1.12

sonar.purge.minimumPeriodInHours

Sonar has an embedded purge mechanism which is fairly powerful to avoid keeping useless data. This mechanism is using a minimum period during which a resource created should not be suppressed whatever its state. This is set by default to 12 hours and should not be changed. The only situation you could want to change this is in case a projects takes more than 12 hours to be analyzed by Sonar.

12

since 2.4

sonar.java.source

Java Version of the Source Code. This property is not used by the Sonar core but can be used by Java Sonar plugin like the PMD plugin. 

1.4, 1.5, 1.6 since 2.10. 1.7 since 2.12

since 2.6

sonar.java.target

Target Java Version of the Source Code. This property is not used by the Sonar core but can be used by Java Sonar plugin like the Clover plugin.

1.4, 1.5 since 2.10

since 2.6

sonar.findbugs.excludesFilters

Enables to use Findbugs exclude filters

since 2.10

sonar.jdbc.driverClassName 

JDBC-Driver used by Sonar

org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver

sonar.jdbc.username

User for the JDBC Connection

sonar

sonar.jdbc.password

Password for the JDBC Connection

sonar

sonar.jdbc.url

JDBC Connection URL

jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/sonar

sonar.dynamicAnalysis

Dynamic analysis relates to unit tests. By default, those unit tests are executed but you can optionally decide to do only static analysis or to reuse existing reports which have been previously generated. Possible values are true, false, reuseReports.

true

since 1.7

sonar.surefire.reportsPath

The absolute or relative path of the surefire reports directory. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

since 1.7

sonar.cobertura.reportPath

The absolute or relative path of the cobertura xml report file. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

since 1.7

sonar.clover.reportPath

The absolute or relative path of the clover xml report file. Used only if sonar.dynamicAnalysis is reuseReports.

since 1.7

sonar.reuseExistingRulesConfiguration

Enables to pass definition of quality profiles to Sonar to run analysis. This option was removed as it is highly unstable.

false

from 1.11 to 2.5