Get link to Sonar dashboard in Jenkins when calling 'gradle sonarRunner'

8
votes

With the Jenkins build step Invoke Standalone Sonar Analysis (which is available via the Sonar plugin) you get this nice link to the SonarQube dashboard in the job overview: sonar link.

I'm not using this build step due to an issue but rather have a build step that calls gradle sonarRunner: gradle sonarRunner

This is the part of my build.gradle configuring Sonar:

sonarRunner {
    sonarProperties {
    property "sonar.projectKey", projectId
    property "sonar.projectName", projectName

    // Address of SonarQube server
    property "sonar.host.url", "http://localhost:9000"

    // Database config
    property "sonar.jdbc.url", "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true"
    property "sonar.jdbc.driverClassName", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
    property "sonar.jdbc.username", "root"
    property "sonar.jdbc.password", "superSecret"
    }
}

This works great: Just as with the Invoke Standalone Sonar Analysis build step, I can browse SonarQube's results at http://localhost:9000/dashboard/index/jutilsId.

Unfortunately, this way the link to the SonarQube dashboard is gone from Jenkins' job overview.

This blog entry describes how to achieve what I want but seems to be outdated as I can find no option in SonarQube's configuration that says Check if this project is NOT built with maven 2.

Is there any way I can have this link and use gradle sonarRunner?

My system:

I'm using SonarQube Server 4.1.1, Gradle Plugin 1.23, Sonar Plugin 2.1, Sonar Runner 2.3 and gradle --version gives:

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Gradle 1.10
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Build time:   2013-12-17 09:28:15 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     36ced393628875ff15575fa03d16c1349ffe8bb6

Groovy:       1.8.6
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy:          2.2.0
JVM:          1.7.0_21 (Oracle Corporation 23.7-b01)
OS:           Linux 3.10-2-486 i386
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1 Answers

9
votes

Sidebar-Link Plugin to the rescue!

  1. Install the plugin.

  2. Put the sonar icon into /var/lib/jenkins/userContent. That's inside JENKINS_HOME. If you don't know where JENKINS_HOME is, take a look in the config file at /etc/default/jenkins.

  3. Set up the link like this in the job's configuration (your URL will be different): sidebar link config

  4. Done