Upgrade to a recent PMD version?

[jakub-bochenski]

Are there any plans to provide new PMD features to Sonar?
The version shipped is over 2 years old

[raviteja50cent]

Can someone help me on this,
Does sonar-pmd-plugin 2.6 have support for Java 10?

I am seeing below error on a project using Java 10.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.4.0.905:sonar (default-cli) on project clean-contacts-rest-api: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported Java version for PMD: 10 -> [Help 1]

[jakub-bochenski]

I'm afraid forking the plugin is the only way to go :(

[raviteja50cent]

Is there a way I can skip the PMD plugin during sonar analysis?

Below is the latest error that I'm seeing

`
[INFO] Java Main Files AST scan (done) | time=6382ms
30-Jul-2018 03:42:56 | [INFO] Java Test Files AST scan
30-Jul-2018 03:42:56 | [INFO] 9 source files to be analyzed
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [WARNING] Classes not found during the analysis : [javax.annotation.meta.When]
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] 9/9 source files have been analyzed
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Java Test Files AST scan (done) | time=548ms
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Sensor JavaSquidSensor [java] (done) | time=7421ms
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Sensor PmdSensor [pmd]
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Execute PMD 5.4.2...
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Execute PMD 5.4.2 done: 29 ms
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Reactor Summary:
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO]
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] clean-contacts-rest-api ............................ FAILURE [ 55.239 s]
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Client : clean-contacts-rest-api ................... SKIPPED
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Svc : clean-contacts-rest-api ...................... SKIPPED
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Total time: 57.361 s
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Finished at: 2018-07-30T10:42:57+00:00
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] Final Memory: 52M/190M
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
30-Jul-2018 03:42:57 | [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.4.0.905:sonar (default-cli) on project clean-contacts-rest-api: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported Java version for PMD: 9 -> [Help 1]

`

[jhlee811]

I am also interested in this issue.
latest PMD version 6.6.0 is released on 29th July 2018.
It's quite a long gap

[ummels]

Try to put the following in your pom.xml:

<build>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.sonarsource.scanner.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
                        <artifactId>pmd-java</artifactId>
                        <version>6.6.0</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
            ....

The log still says "Execute PMD 5.4.2..." but it is working with Java 8, so the used version must be higher.

[timwebster9]

I'm afraid forking the plugin is the only way to go :(

... and then submitting a PR :-). This is a community plugin, and while I no longer have time to maintain it I might be able to help with PRs/releases if no one else is interested. You can always get in touch with SonarSource if you want to become a collaborator as well...

[raviteja50cent]

@ummels Thanks for providing the information.

I will make changes and execute.