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Importing a report from  a non supported tool

As of version 0.2, any static analysis tool can be reused with the plugin using the property sonar.cxx.externalrules.reportPath. The following table describes the format of the report

Xml Description - RNG-SchemaExample
<element name="results" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0">
 <zeroOrMore>
   <element name="error">
     <attribute name="file"/>
     <attribute name="msg"/>
     <attribute name="id"/>
     <attribute name="line">
       <data type="integer" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes" />
     </attribute>
     <text/>
   </element>
 </zeroOrMore>
</element>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<results>
<error file="sources/utils/code_chunks.cpp" line="1" id="cxxexternal-unusedFunction" msg="The function 'foo' is never used"/>
<error file="sources/utils/utils.cpp" line="1" id="cxxexternal-unusedFunction" msg="The function 'utils' is never used"/>
</results>

Attribute

Description

filesource file, relative to project path
lineline of the violation
idid of the rule, mapped a rule in sonar. See "Enable the rules in Sonar server" below
msgdescription of the violation

Creation of a profile for the external tool - Mandatory before running a analysis

The creation of rule set for this tool re-uses the concept of Extending Rules in C++ Analysers therefore the only thing needed is a xml file with the definition of the rules and their respective activation

 

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