Resolve violations from sonarcloud.io

[romani]

https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle

lets try to resolve all violations in our code, if reasonable.

[muhlba91]

I started looking through them and found those issues to be discussed:

• CheckstyleRulesDefinition::extractRulesData -> uses deprecated (and without provided alternative) classes from sslr-squid-bridge to load the HTML and SQALE model
  • HTML loading is not a problem; we can kinda migrate the code as it's simple and short
  • SQALE seems to not be used anymore by sslr-squid-bridge (see: https://github.com/SonarSource/sslr-squid-bridge/blob/master/src/main/java/org/sonar/squidbridge/rules/SqaleXmlLoader.java#L42); hence, we can migrate the code or use any alternative? I don't use SQALE myself - any ideas?
• RuleFinder is not deprecated; only marked deprecated wrongly in our used API version - we investigated this issue before already
• violation. To remove https://sonarcloud.io/code?id=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle&line=114&selected=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle%3Asrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Forg%2Fsonar%2Fplugins%2Fcheckstyle%2FCheckstyleExecutor.java we would need to perform some refactoring since file() is deprecated without replacement
• we have a lot of usage of RulePriority but Sonar still uses that one - we discussed it earlier as well; once Sonar replaces their return values we can solve this
• I actually don't know if it's wise to change this one: https://sonarcloud.io/code?id=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle&line=55&selected=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle%3Asrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Forg%2Fsonar%2Fplugins%2Fcheckstyle%2FCheckstyleExecutor.java

For the other issues, it's quite straight forward to resolve them.

[romani]

For the other issues, it's quite straight forward to resolve them.

please do. the less violations the better. No need to fix the all in one PR, even 1 violation in separate PR is ok. Continuous improvements ...

CheckstyleRulesDefinition::extractRulesData -> uses deprecated (and without provided alternative)

I see clear meassage in javadoc that plugin need to host this functionality in their own code.
https://github.com/SonarSource/sslr-squid-bridge/blob/master/src/main/java/org/sonar/squidbridge/rules/ExternalDescriptionLoader.java#L33
Lets just copy such files to us.

RuleFinder is not deprecated; only marked deprecated wrongly in our used API version - we investigated this issue before already

I do not see deprecation in latest code
https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/blob/master/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/rules/RuleFinder.java
should be upgrade to new version ?

file() is deprecated without replacement

I see suggestion on what to use instead -
https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/blob/master/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/batch/fs/InputFile.java#L91

we have a lot of usage of RulePriority but Sonar still uses that one

https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/blob/master/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/rules/RulePriority.java#L30
Please open issue on them to let when describe what is better way to define this.

I actually don't know if it's wise to change this one

It is false positive for sure, but ... according to
https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/RSPEC-1075 we probably can remove leading "/" and pass validation.
Or according to https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-dotnet/pull/556/files#diff-4682fc1f8b2440f08cbc43fa1a536fa0R56 , name variable as xxxxLocation and pass :).

[muhlba91]

I created issues for:

• RulePriority: RulePriority deprecated #220
• the SQALE model: How to handle SQALE? #219

Working on the others.

[rnveach]

@romani Is it possible to put sonar as part of CI so we can see violations are fixed and won't come back?

[romani]

Yes, they do have PR processing now, but I didn't have time to set up it.
There is still problem to set up custom gate, suppression, rules. it will require extra scripting to make it prevents new issue to appear.

[romani]

No spacial scripting is required now, now sonarqube is completely customizable.
We just need to resolve or mark as won't fix all issues

[romani]

https://github.com/checkstyle/sonar-checkstyle/blob/master/src/main/resources/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/rules.xml#L77

[romani]

this i the only major violations that is left - https://sonarcloud.io/project/issues?id=checkstyle_sonar-checkstyle&open=AWpuVgQeyRjJygCrGbZ-&resolved=false&severities=MAJOR

Al other related to deprecation resolving it is part of #58.

So as this major is resolved we can close this issue.