SonarScanner for Ant (Deprecated)

The SonarScanner for Ant provides a task to allow the integration of a SonarQube Community Build analysis into an Apache Ant build script.

Moving from SonarScanner for Ant to SonarScanner CLI

The SonarScanner for Ant is an Ant Task that is a wrapper of the SonarScanner CLI, which works by invoking the SonarScanner CLI and passing to it all properties named following a sonar.* convention. It is now deprecated. We recommend using the SonarScanner CLI directly.

If you’re still using the SonarScanner for Ant, follow these steps to remove the wrapper from your build file,  create a sonar-project.properties in your project, and run the analysis.

Prerequisites

The SonarScanner CLI is installed on your machine.

Configuring your sonar properties

1. Create a sonar-project.properties in your project.
2. Move the sonar.* properties from your build.xml  file to the sonar-project.properties file. For example:

sonar.host.url="sonarHostUrl"
sonar.projectKey="projectKey"
sonar.projectName=“projectName"
sonar.projectVersion=“1.0”
sonar.sources="src"
sonar.java.binaries="build" 
sonar.java.libraries="lib/*.jar"

See SonarScanner CLI for more information on how to configure project properties.

Running the analysis

Create a Sonar authentication token and run the analysis using sonar-scanner -Dsonar.token=myAuthenticationToken.

Alternatively, instead of passing the token in your command line, you can create the SONAR_TOKEN environment variable and set the token as its value before you launch the analysis.

See SonarScanner CLI for more information.

[Archived] sample project

For comparison purposes, a sample SonarScanner for Ant project is available here: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-scanning-examples/tree/master/sonar-scanner-ant/ant-basic