Where is the Sonar "duplicated code" here?

Question

I just run sonar scanner on the sample Sonar project. It gives me the message that there is "duplicated code on lines 7-20". Can anyone explain this?

Answer 1

SonarQube is telling you that this portion of the code contains duplicated logic. This doesn't necessarily mean that the code itself is copy-pasted, but that, conceptually, the exact same thing is happening at multiple places. In this case, the logic of returning a String value with regard to the int value is clearly repeated.

A simple solution here:

String[] array = { "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six" };
if (i >= 1 && i <= array.length) {
    return array[i - 1];
}

Answer 2

SonarRules for Java projects:

A piece of code is considered as duplicated as soon as there is the same sequence of 10 successive statements whatever the number of tokens and lines. This threshold cannot be overridden.

You need to modify that multiple if return sections