How to disable Sonar rules for specific files?

Since SonarQube 4.0, you can define issue exclusion patterns based on rule key and file path pattern.

On previous versions, you can rely upon the Switch Off Violations plugin.

You can annotate a class or a method with SuppressWarnings.

Here is an example:

@java.lang.SuppressWarnings("squid:S00111") squid:S00111 in this case is a Sonar issue ID. You can find this issue id from the Sonar web ui.