Scan your code with SonarCloud

Using this GitHub Action, scan your code with SonarCloud to detects bugs, vulnerabilities and code smells in more than 20 programming languages!

SonarCloud is the leading product for Continuous Code Quality & Code Security online, totally free for open-source projects. It supports all major programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C/C++ and many more. If your code is closed source, SonarCloud also offers a paid plan to run private analyses

Requirements

• Have an account on SonarCloud. Sign up for free now if it's not already the case!
• The repository to analyze is set up on SonarCloud. Set it up in just one click.

Usage

Project metadata, including the location to the sources to be analyzed, must be declared in the file sonar-project.properties in the base directory:

sonar.organization=<replace with your SonarCloud organization key>
sonar.projectKey=<replace with the key generated when setting up the project on SonarCloud>

# relative paths to source directories. More details and properties are described
# in https://sonarcloud.io/documentation/project-administration/narrowing-the-focus/ 
sonar.sources=.

The workflow, usually declared in .github/workflows/build.yml, looks like:

on: push
name: Main Workflow
jobs:
  sonarCloudTrigger:
    name: SonarCloud Trigger
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: SonarCloud Scan
      uses: sonarsource/sonarcloud-github-action@master
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}

Secrets

• SONAR_TOKEN – Required this is the token used to authenticate access to SonarCloud. You can generate a token on your Security page in SonarCloud. You can set the SONAR_TOKEN environment variable in the "Secrets" settings page of your repository.

Environment variables

• SCAN_PULL_REQUEST – Optional Flag to run analysis on pull_request events. Scans on pull requests are disabled by default as the action expects to be triggered by push events.

Example of pull request analysis

Do not use this GitHub action if you are in the following situations

• Your code is built with Maven: run 'org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar' during the build
• Your code is built with Gradle: use the SonarQube plugin for Gradle during the build
• You want to analyze a .NET solution: use the SonarCloud Azure DevOps Extension to analyze your code on SonarCloud with Azure Pipelines
• You want to analyze C/C++ code: rely on our Travis-CI extension and look at our sample C/C++ project

Have question or feedback?

To provide feedback (requesting a feature or reporting a bug) please post on the SonarSource Community Forum with the tag sonarcloud.

License

The Dockerfile and associated scripts and documentation in this project are released under the LGPLv3 License.

Container images built with this project include third party materials.