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Writing a sonarqube plugin is not always requiring a parser at the beginning. We are able to import a third-party report into sonarqube database.

In the recent times, we are working on integrating HDL(hardware description language) working with SoanrQube. Here is a roadmap for plugin developers from scratch.

Background

• Official guide: Read carefully, but you are NOT required to write a parser at the beginning as the document mentions.
• Sonar-cxx: A good example for reading third-party reports with the corner-case handled.

Relationship

Roadmap

We don’t recommend to create a lint tool only for Sonarqube. The better way is to create a standalone tool to gererate reports for sonarqube/IDEs.

Hint

• If you have rules more than 10k, the default H2 database will lose some rules.