Using SonarQube 5.2 with Sonar-Java-Plugin 3.8, and for analysis Sonar-Runner 2.4 is used.
Plugin and java-custom examples are downloaded from git (https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-examples/tree/master/plugins/java-custom-rules), built and deployed on server, and rules are visible on the server. Rules were activated using web under "Sonar Way" profile (which is default). A new test profile is also created and rule "Avoid Brand in method name" is added to it, and associated a project to it.
While analyzing sample java code from (/src/test/files), issues from all default java rules are locked on server, but no issue for the custom rules are locked. There are no explicit error in logs either.
sonar-runner.properties
sonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar52?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
sonar.jdbc.username=root
sonar.jdbc.password=ChangeIt
sonar.projectKey=TestSonarCustomRules
sonar.projectName=TestSonarCustomRules
sonar.projectVersion=1.0
sonar.sources=E:/Sonar Example/sonar-examples-master/plugins/java-custom-rules/src/test/files/
Here are the analysis logs:
E:\sonar-runner-2.4
SonarQube Runner 2.4
Java 1.8.0_45 Oracle Corporation (64-bit)
Windows 7 6.1 amd64
INFO: Runner configuration file: E:\sonar-runner-2.4\conf\sonar-runner.properties
INFO: Project configuration file: NONE
INFO: Default locale: "en_US", source code encoding: "windows-1252" (analysis is platform dependent)
INFO: Work directory: E:\Sonar Example\sonar-examples-master\plugins\java-custom-rules\src\test\files\.\.sonar
INFO: SonarQube Server 5.2
18:56:49.391 INFO - Load global repositories
18:56:49.539 INFO - Load global repositories (done) | time=145ms
18:56:49.557 WARN - Property 'sonar.jdbc.url' is not supported any more. There is no more DB connection to the SQ database. It will be ignored.
18:56:49.558 WARN - Property 'sonar.jdbc.username' is not supported any more. There is no more DB connection to the SQ database. It will be ignored.
18:56:49.558 WARN - Property 'sonar.jdbc.password' is not supported any more. There is no more DB connection to the SQ database. It will be ignored.
18:56:49.560 INFO - User cache: C:\Users\kapil.saxena\.sonar\cache
18:56:49.777 INFO - Load plugins index
18:56:49.781 INFO - Load plugins index (done) | time=4ms
18:56:49.960 INFO - Process project properties
18:56:50.209 INFO - Load project repositories
18:56:50.290 INFO - Load project repositories (done) | time=81ms
18:56:50.298 INFO - Apply project exclusions
18:56:50.369 INFO - Load quality profiles
18:56:50.401 INFO - Load quality profiles (done) | time=32ms
18:56:50.403 INFO - Load active rules
18:56:50.478 INFO - Load active rules (done) | time=75ms
18:56:50.498 WARN - SCM provider autodetection failed. No SCM provider claims to support this project. Please use sonar.scm.provider to define SCM of your project.
18:56:50.499 INFO - Publish mode
18:56:50.500 INFO - ------------- Scan TestSonarCustomRules
18:56:50.582 INFO - Load server rules
18:56:50.630 INFO - Load server rules (done) | time=48ms
18:56:50.683 INFO - Base dir: E:\Sonar Example\sonar-examples-master\plugins\java-custom-rules\src\test\files
18:56:50.683 INFO - Working dir: E:\Sonar Example\sonar-examples-master\plugins\java-custom-rules\src\test\files\.sonar
18:56:50.685 INFO - Source paths: .
18:56:50.685 INFO - Source encoding: windows-1252, default locale: en_US
18:56:50.686 INFO - Index files
18:56:50.758 INFO - 7 files indexed
18:56:50.760 INFO - Quality profile for java: Kapil Test Profile
18:56:50.786 INFO - Sensor JavaSquidSensor
18:56:50.925 INFO - Configured Java source version: none
18:56:50.954 INFO - JavaClasspath initialization...
18:56:50.954 INFO - JavaClasspath initialization done: 0 ms
18:56:50.954 INFO - JavaTestClasspath initialization...
18:56:50.954 INFO - JavaTestClasspath initialization done: 0 ms
18:56:51.232 INFO - Java Main Files AST scan...
18:56:51.234 INFO - 7 source files to be analyzed
18:56:51.631 INFO - 7/7 source files have been analyzed
18:56:51.632 INFO - Java Main Files AST scan done: 400 ms
18:56:51.632 WARN - Java bytecode has not been made available to the analyzer. The org.sonar.java.bytecode.visitor.DependenciesVisitor@3a5c2626 are disabled.
18:56:51.632 INFO - Java Test Files AST scan...
18:56:51.632 INFO - 0 source files to be analyzed
18:56:51.632 INFO - Java Test Files AST scan done: 0 ms
18:56:51.632 INFO - 0/0 source files have been analyzed
18:56:51.632 INFO - Sensor JavaSquidSensor (done) | time=846ms
18:56:51.633 INFO - Sensor Lines Sensor
18:56:51.635 INFO - Sensor Lines Sensor (done) | time=2ms
18:56:51.635 INFO - Sensor QProfileSensor
18:56:51.640 INFO - Sensor QProfileSensor (done) | time=5ms
18:56:51.640 INFO - Sensor SurefireSensor
18:56:51.641 INFO - parsing E:\Sonar Example\sonar-examples-master\plugins\java-custom-rules\src\test\files\target\surefire-reports
18:56:51.641 ERROR - Reports path not found or is not a directory: E:\Sonar Example\sonar-examples-master\plugins\java-custom-rules\src\test\files\target\surefire-reports
18:56:51.641 INFO - Sensor SurefireSensor (done) | time=1ms
18:56:51.641 INFO - Sensor SCM Sensor
18:56:51.641 INFO - No SCM system was detected. You can use the 'sonar.scm.provider' property to explicitly specify it.
18:56:51.641 INFO - Sensor SCM Sensor (done) | time=0ms
18:56:51.641 INFO - Sensor Code Colorizer Sensor
18:56:51.642 INFO - Sensor Code Colorizer Sensor (done) | time=1ms
18:56:51.642 INFO - Sensor CPD Sensor
18:56:51.642 INFO - JavaCpdEngine is used for java
18:56:51.682 INFO - Sensor CPD Sensor (done) | time=40ms
18:56:51.752 INFO - Analysis reports generated in 68ms, dir size=9 KB
18:56:51.873 INFO - Analysis reports compressed in 121ms, zip size=11 KB
18:56:51.912 INFO - Analysis reports sent to server in 38ms
18:56:51.913 INFO - ANALYSIS SUCCESSFUL, you can browse http://localhost:9000/dashboard/index/TestSonarCustomRules
18:56:51.913 INFO - Note that you will be able to access the updated dashboard once the server has processed the submitted analysis report.
18:56:51.913 INFO - More about the report processing at http://localhost:9000/api/ce/task?id=AVGl0nT8XJ_fdu5L48WL
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: EXECUTION SUCCESS INFO:
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Total time: 3.290s Final Memory: 14M/325M INFO:
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sonar, access and wrapper logs are all clean.
Here's image from SonarQube web showing issues for AvoidBrandInMethodNamesChecks, where all default issues are locked but issues against custom rule are not locked: Issues for AvoidBrandInMethodNamesCheck
Any help would be appreciated.