Turning Sonar off for certain code

This is a FAQ. You can put //NOSONAR at the end of the line triggering the warning.

//NOSONAR

For most languages, SonarQube supports the use of the generic mechanism: //NOSONAR at the end of the line of the issue. This will suppress all issues - now and in the future - that might be raised on the line.

I prefer using the FindBugs mechanism though, which consists in adding the @SuppressFBWarnings annotation:

@edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressFBWarnings(
    value = "NAME_OF_THE_FINDBUGS_RULE_TO_IGNORE",
    justification = "Why you choose to ignore it")

You can annotate a class or a method with SuppressWarnings

@java.lang.SuppressWarnings("squid:S00112")

squid:S00112 in this case is a Sonar issue ID. You can find this ID in the Sonar UI. Go to Issues Drilldown. Find an issue you want to suppress warnings on. In the red issue box in your code is there a Rule link with a definition of a given issue. Once you click that you will see the ID at the top of the page.

I recommend you try to suppress specific warnings by using @SuppressWarnings("squid:S2078").

For suppressing multiple warnings you can do it like this @SuppressWarnings({"squid:S2078", "squid:S2076"})

There is also the //NOSONAR comment that tells SonarQube to ignore all errors for a specific line.

Finally if you have the proper rights for the user interface you can issue a flag as a false positive directly from the interface.

The reason why I recommend suppression of specific warnings is that it's a better practice to block a specific issue instead of using //NOSONAR and risk a Sonar issue creeping in your code by accident.

You can read more about this in the FAQ

Edit: 6/30/16 SonarQube is now called SonarLint

In case you are wondering how to find the squid number. Just click on the Sonar message (ex. Remove this method to simply inherit it.) and the Sonar issue will expand.

On the bottom left it will have the squid number (ex. squid:S1185 Maintainability > Understandability)

So then you can suppress it by @SuppressWarnings("squid:S1185")

Use //NOSONAR on the line you get warning if it is something you cannot help your code with. It works!