How to get more than 500 issues from SonarQube api

Question

I'm using the SonarQube API in a java tool to process issues and add comments to them/change the issue status (e.g. wont fix)

The api/issues/search function has a page size limitation of 500 max. I have more than 500 issues and need to read this. I thought of performing mulitpule queries, but the issue keys are not numberical so I can not just increment and perform a query on the next 500.

Is there any way I can handle more than 500 issues from the API? I thought a workaround would be to get the list of issue keys from the api and query in batches, but this doesnt seem possible.

Answer 1

• Short answer : no, it's not possible to get more than 500 issues in a single web service call.

• Long answer : you should try to use a hook (either by using a plugin or by using a web hook) that is triggered on each project analysis => You'll then be able to browse all project's issues using pagination : api/issues/search?componentKeys=PROJECT_KEY&ps=500&p=1, then api/issues/search?componentKeys=PROJECT_KEY&ps=500&p=2, etc.

  The total number of items can be found in the response, under "paging" -> "total".