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SonarQube Quality Gate check 
Check the Quality Gate of your code with SonarQube to ensure your code meets your own quality standards before you release or deploy new features.
SonarQube is the leading product for Continuous Code Quality & Code Security. It supports most popular programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Python, C, C++, and many more.
Requirements
A previous step must have run an analysis on your code.
Read more information on how to analyze your code here
Usage
The workflow YAML file will usually look something like this::
on:
# Trigger analysis when pushing in master or pull requests, and when creating
# a pull request.
push:
branches:
- master
pull_request:
types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
name: Main Workflow
jobs:
sonarqube:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
# Disabling shallow clone is recommended for improving relevancy of reporting
fetch-depth: 0
# Triggering SonarQube analysis as results of it are required by Quality Gate check
- name: SonarQube Scan
uses: sonarsource/sonarqube-scan-action@master
env:
SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}
SONAR_HOST_URL: ${{ secrets.SONAR_HOST_URL }}
- name: SonarQube Quality Gate check
uses: sonarsource/sonarqube-quality-gate-action@master
# Force to fail step after specific time
timeout-minutes: 5
env:
SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}
Make sure to set up timeout-minutes property in your step, to avoid wasting action minutes per month (see above example).
When using this action with sonarsource/sonarqube-scan action or with C/C++ code analysis you don't have to provide scanMetadataReportFile input, otherwise you should alter the location of it.
Typically, report metadata file for different scanners can vary and can be located in:
target/sonar/report-task.txtfor Maven projectsbuild/sonar/report-task.txtfor Gradle projects.sonarqube/out/.sonar/report-task.txtfor .NET projects
Example usage:
- name: SonarQube Quality Gate check
uses: sonarsource/sonarqube-quality-gate-action@master
with:
scanMetadataReportFile: target/sonar/report-task.txt
Environment variables
SONAR_TOKEN– Required this is the token used to authenticate access to SonarQube. You can read more about security tokens here. You can set theSONAR_TOKENenvironment variable in the "Secrets" settings page of your repository, or you can add them at the level of your GitHub organization (recommended).
Quality Gate check run
Have questions or feedback?
To provide feedback (requesting a feature or reporting a bug) please post on the SonarSource Community Forum.
License
Scripts and documentation in this project are released under the LGPLv3 License.