Ability to exclude sources or packages from quality control

It would be also nice to do it also for cobertura.

Further, would be good to exclude selected packages from JavaNCSS.

Here are the filters to use on each plugins :

• Maven Checkstyle plugin, feed the configuration/excludes node with a comma-separated list of Ant patterns

  <plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
         <excludes>**/generated/**/*</excludes>
     </configuration>
  </plugin>

• Maven PMD plugin, feed the configuration/excludes node with a comma-separated list of Ant patterns

  <plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
         <excludes>**/generated/**/*</excludes>
     </configuration>
  </plugin>

• Maven Findbugs plugin, feed the configuration/excludeFilterFile node with a path to an existing findbugs-exclude.xml file located at the project root

  <plugin>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> 
     <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
        <excludeFilterFile>findbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>
     </configuration>
  </plugin>

The content of the findbugs-exclude.xml file could be for instance :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FindBugsFilter>
       <Match>
                <Package name="com.toto.generated" />
       </Match>
</FindBugsFilter>

• Maven JavaNCSS plugin, feed configuration/excludes/exclude nodes with an Ant pattern

  <plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-javancss-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
        <excludes>
           <exclude>**/generated/**/*</exclude>
           <exclude>**/foobar.java</exclude>
         </excludes>
     </configuration>
  </plugin>

Clover and Cobertura plugins can also be configured to exclude sources.

is it possible to re-open to implement the UI as suggested?
I've been struggling to configure the exclusion of some packages, dirs and classes from my sonar project but i cant figure it out!
alternatively, could you give a working example?
much thanks!

i meant for PMD (duplications detection)

Hi Andre,

This ticket wouldn't be reopened since it was fixed in version 1.7. Moreover I suggest you to ask such questions in user mailing list : http://www.sonarsource.org/support/support/

You can completely exclude resource from Sonar analyzes on project settings page or via maven property "sonar.exclusions".