Gitlab and Code-Climate - what does it really cover? nothing?

Question

I setup code quality step, following this gitlab doc (very poor doc): https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.html

Now the code quality step runs and I get the report (perfect).

But, it seems that it doesn"t check much, here is an example:

:["Complexity"],"check_name":"method_count","content":{"body":""},"description":"`Admis` has 78 methods (exceeds 20 allowed). Consider refactoring.","fingerprint":"3a31032b9aff6d8b119f276d03a3c391","location":{"path":"src/main/java/nc/unc/importparcoursup/dao/admisDAO/Admis.java","lines":{"begin":14,"end":457}},"other_locations":[],"remediation_points":7000000,"severity":"major","type":"issue","engine_name":"structure"},{
:["Complexity"],"check_name":"file_lines","content":{"body":""},"description":"File `Candidat.java` has 945 lines of code (exceeds 250 allowed). Consider refactoring.","fingerprint":"4f570943e9f89fac8caa554c7e78f993","location":{"path":"src/main/java/nc/unc/importparcoursup/dao/candidatDAO/Candidat.java","lines":{"begin":1,"end":1184}},"other_locations":[],"remediation_points":11208000,"severity":"major","type":"issue","engine_name":"structure"},{
:["Complexity"],"check_name":"method_count","content":{"body":""},"description":"`Candidat` has 232 methods (exceeds 20 allowed). Consider refactoring.","fingerprint":"4dbebf004d9f5f3a1fabf03c43699c01","location":{"path":"src/main/java/nc/unc/importparcoursup/dao/candidatDAO/Candidat.java","lines":{"begin":14,"end":1184}},"other_locations":[],"remediation_points":22400000,"severity":"major","type":"issue","engine_name":"structure"},{
:["Bug Risk"],"check_name":"TODO","description":"TODO found","location":{"lines":{"begin":28,"end":28},"path":"src/main/java/nc/unc/importparcoursup/view/components/CheckComponentAdmis.java"},"type":"issue","engine_name":"fixme","fingerprint":"d8d52d96fc27f9b0a1f9879e7d133345","severity":"minor"}]

• "method_count and file_lines": are for my entities class, so they are not real erros (no point in splitting an entity class)
• "TODO found": real problem ok (bravo code quality check!)

I know there are many other problems. If I put the code into sonarcube, I find many more problems than that)

Where are all the errors (the real ones) ?

Did something is badly setup ?

My project source: https://gitlab.com/tyvain/parcoursup

Answer 1

your repository does not contain configuration for the code-quality check, so it runs with default options.

You should probably add a .codeclimate.yml-file. (You can also run sonar as an engine there...)

See https://docs.codeclimate.com/docs/advanced-configuration and https://docs.codeclimate.com/docs/list-of-engines

gitlab by default (i.e. without configutation) seems to be more suited for web-projects, see the default config at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/codequality/tree/master/codeclimate_defaults

Also, you should probably add the report (maybe additionally) in the reports-subentry below artifacts, like:

  artifacts:
    paths:
      - gl-code-quality-report.json
    reports:
      codequality: gl-code-quality-report.json

This way, gitlab shows the new/fixed issues in merge requests (at payed levels), see

Regards, Tim