Custom exception wrong inheritance

Question

I have created custom base exception that extends Exception class. Later on I'm extending MyBaseException class by another - this time specyfic exception class. And I now have problem with one of SonarQube - to be specyfic with "Classes named like "Exception" should extend "Exception" or a subclass" rule. Class declarations looks like that:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;    
public class MyBaseException extends Exception {
    public MyBaseException(int code, String message) {
        super(message);
        this.code = code;
        LOGGER.error("Exception with HttpStatus code: " + code + " Msg: "
            + message);
    }

    public MyBaseException(HttpStatus code, String message) {
        this(code.value(), message);
    }

    public int getCode() {
        return code;
    } 
}

import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
public class SpecException extends MyBaseException {
    public SpecException (HttpStatus code, String message) {
        super(code, message);
    }

    public SpecException (int code, String message) {
        super(code, message);
    }
}

Problem is only with this SpecException. SonarQube don't see any issues with first inheritance. Hint given by SonarQube is: "Rename this class to remove "Exception" or correct its inheritance." but I think inheritance is correct since I'm inheriting by subclass of Exception.

Answer 1

At this link someone says that Sonar 6.0 corrects this issue: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sonarqube/iXxKGIYRZ1g.

I have just realised Sonar v6.0 is out, the problem is gone after I tested with the new version. Thank you Michael for your time.

It seems like it is a bug on previous versions of Sonar. It's well known that all exception classes in Java are named by convention ending with "Exception" and that they can have multiple levels so your code seems to be correct as soon as your upper level exception is extending the Exception class.