File exclusions

All versions of SonarLint will fetch file exclusions from the SonarQube or SonarCloud server when you bind a project or update a binding while running in Connected Mode. Check the SonarQube and SonarCloud documentation for information about defining your Analysis scope.

File exclusions in the IDE

When running in Connected Mode with SonarQube or SonarCloud, SonarLint will ignore local exclusions and fetch file exclusions from the SonarQube or SonarCloud server.

Defining file exclusions locally in SonarLint for VS Code is possible in versions 3.22 and newer. 

Defining file exclusions

The sonarlint.analysisExcludesStandalone property is a simple way to locally exclude files from your analysis and can be used to configure wildcard patterns for files that only SonarLint will exclude. For example:

• The glob pattern **/file[1-3].py
• will exclude file1.py, file2.py and file3.py

Go to VS Code Manage > Settings > Workspace and search sonarlint.analysisExcludesStandalone to add your exclusion patterns.

A second exclusion method configures VS Code to exclude files from your workspace; however, this may have unintended consequences such as files disappearing from the VS Code Explorer view.

To use VS Code’s file exclusions, go to VS Code Manage > Settings > Workspace, search File: Exclude and select Add Pattern. The Workspace setting has information about how VS Code uses wildcard patterns to manage exclusions in the editor.

Wildcard patterns

The recognized path-matching patterns are case-sensitive and defined using the following wildcards:

• *  Match zero or more characters (not including the directory delimiter,  / ).
• **  Match zero or more directory segments or files within the path.
• ?  Match a single character (not including the directory delimiter,  / ).

Wildcard examples

• The pattern  **/*.css
  • matches  anyDirectory/anyFile.css
  • doesn't match  org/sonar.api/MyBean.java
• The pattern  **/*Bean.java
  • matches  org/sonar.api/MyBean.java
  • doesn't match org/sonar.api/mybean.java or org/sonar/util/MyDTO.java
• The pattern  **/*Bean?.java
  • matches  org/sonar/util/MyOtherBean1.java
  • doesn't match  org/sonar/util/MyOtherBean.java
• The pattern  org/sonar/*
  • matches  org/sonar/MyClass.java
  • doesn't match  org/sonar/util/MyClassUtil.java
• The pattern  org/sonar/**/* is equivalent to org/sonar/** and
  • matches  org/sonar/anyDirectory/anyFile
  • matches org/sonar/MyClass.java
  • doesn't match  org/radar/MyClass.java

The use of ? to match a single character is available in SonarLint for VS Code v4.0+.