Sonar Setup Undefined Mandatory Properties

Question

Learning how to use SonarQube and was doing a quick install from here

Got all the way down to step 5. My build fails when I execute: C:\sonar-runner\bin\sonar-runner.bat

I get the following error:

INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INFO: EXECUTION FAILURE INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total time: 7.572s Final Memory: 8M/223M INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ERROR: Error during Sonar runner execution ERROR: Unable to execute Sonar ERROR: Caused by: You must define the following mandatory properties for 'Unknown':   sonar.projectKey, sonar.projectName, sonar.projectVersion, sonar.sources ERROR: ERROR: To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run SonarQube Runner with the -e switch. ERROR: Re-run SonarQube Runner using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. 

Anyone encountered a similar situation and resolved?

Answer 1

If you have a java project, you must create a sonar-project.properties file in the folder where you execute sonar runner. You must define the following properties inside this file:

# Required metadata sonar.projectKey=java-sonar-runner-simple sonar.projectName=Simple Java project analyzed with the SonarQube Runner sonar.projectVersion=1.0  # Comma-separated paths to directories with sources (required) sonar.sources=src  # Language sonar.language=java  # Encoding of the source files sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8 

Hope this helps,