How can I exclude files of the Code Coverage of SonarQube using JaCoCo maven plugin

Question

I've got a big issue with the integration of JaCoCo maven plugin for the code covering of SonarQube 6.0.

I've got a multi-module Maven project lets say :

master
    |--core
    |--web
    |--process

in the master pom.xml, I've setted a reporting profile like that :

<profile>
        <id>reporting</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>pre-unit-test</id>
                            <!--<phase>test</phase> -->
                            <goals>
                                <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <!-- Sets the path to the file to write the execution data to. -->
                                <destFile>${sonar.jacoco.reportPath}</destFile>
                                <!-- Connection with SureFire plugin -->
                                <propertyName>sonarUnitTestArgLine</propertyName>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                        <execution>
                            <id>post-unit-test</id>
                            <phase>test</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>report</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <!-- Sets the path to where the execution data is located. -->
                                <dataFile>${sonar.jacoco.reportPath}</dataFile>
                                <!-- Sets the output directory for the code coverage report. -->
                                <outputDirectory>${jacoco.ut.outputdir}</outputDirectory>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>

                    </executions>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <forkMode>once</forkMode>
                        <argLine>${sonarUnitTestArgLine} -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -Xms512m -Xmx512m</argLine>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

in the childs, I overload the configuration by adding some exclusions :

<!-- First attempt -->
<properties>
    <sonar.jacoco.excludes>**/model/**/*</sonar.jacoco.excludes>
</properties>

<!-- Second attempt -->
<properties>
    <sonar.coverage.exclusions>**/model/**/*</sonar.coverage.exclusions>
</properties>

<!-- Third attempt -->
<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>reporting</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <excludes>
                            <!-- Exclude model classes (POJO's) -->
                            <exclude>**/model/**/*.class</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>

the idea here is to remove the Pojo of the code coverage ( we also do it for other types of Class ...)

When I run the mvn command line :

mvn clean generate-sources install verify -P reporting -fn

All my reports are well generated but in Sonar, the exculsions aren't been taking into account ...

Please can you help me fixing this issue ?

Answer 1

After a lot of reasearch, I've found the solution for this problem, I post the answers to help poeple ho'll have the same issue :

In the master-module

<properties>
    <sonar.coverage.exclusions>
       **/patternA/**/*,
       **/patternB/**/*
    </sonar.coverage.exclusions>
</properties>

In the sub-modules

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>report</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <excludes>
                            <!-- Exclude model classes (POJO's) -->
                            <exclude>**/patternA/**/*.class</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>

in the master pom