Build Breaker Plugin with SonarQube 5.2

Question

It seems like the Build Breaker Plugin is no longer compatible with SonarQube 5.2. Is there any alternative to have a (VSO) build fail if a Sonar gate is not fulfilled or ar

Answer 1

With SonarQube 5.3 a new Quality Gates Web Service was introduced which could be called and used to break the build.

To break the CI build for a failed Quality Gate, use WS API calls in a loop to wait until processing is finished, and then check Quality Gate web service:

• call the analysis's ceTaskUrl and examine the "status" value:
  • PENDING or IN_PROGRESS - check again later
  • FAILED or CANCELED - break the build?
  • SUCCESS - move forward
• call Quality Gate web service for status

I've also added an issue to enhance the VSTS Tasks with an option to automatically call this service.

Update: A recent PR added this feature to the VSTS Task (not released yet)