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build-test-sonar had drifted behind the SonarCloud configuration that ploch-common grew inline after it stopped consuming this action. Every repository still on build-test-sonar@main was getting the weaker configuration: no project version, no coverage exclusions, a coverage glob that misses most files on multi-project solutions, and a hard failure on fork pull requests.

This brings the action up to parity and documents it.

Changes

New inputs

Input Default Why
sonar-project-version (empty) Passed as /v:. Without it SonarCloud's "Previous version" new-code definition has no version history to diff against and treats the entire baseline as new code on every analysis, making the new-code quality gate meaningless.
sonar-coverage-exclusions test projects, scripts, generated annotations Passed as sonar.coverage.exclusions. Previously nothing was excluded, so test projects and scripts were scored as uncovered production code. Pass '' to disable.

Coverage glob widened

**/CoverageResults/coverage.opencover.xml**/CoverageResults/coverage*.opencover.xml.

Coverlet emits one file per assembly (coverage.<Assembly>.opencover.xml) for multi-project solutions. The exact filename silently matched only one of them — coverage was under-reported with no error anywhere.

Explicit SCM and base directory

Adds sonar.scm.provider=git and sonar.projectBaseDir, matching ploch-common. Without an explicit SCM provider the scanner has to auto-detect blame data, which is what drives new-code attribution.

Fork and Dependabot pull requests no longer fail the whole check

The Validate SonarCloud Token step (added in #3) exited 1 on an empty token. That is right for a misconfigured repository, but on a fork or Dependabot PR the secret is legitimately unavailable — so the action failed and, worse, build and test never ran.

Replaced with a sonar-eligibility step that computes a SECRETS_WITHHELD flag:

Token Pull request Outcome
present any analysis runs
absent fork, or Dependabot-authored ::warning::, scanner steps skipped, build and test still run
absent anything else ::error::, job fails (unchanged)

Note. Dependabot pull requests run from a branch in this repository, so a head.repo.full_name test alone does not detect them even though GitHub withholds secrets just the same. The first revision of this PR got that wrong; it was caught in review by both Codex (P1) and CodeRabbit (Major) and fixed in a62d9d4 by adding the author check.

The scanner install, begin and end steps are gated on that flag. setup-java is gated too, since Java exists only for the scanner.

Build and test always run (added in review)

Gating the scanner steps was not enough. A failed tool install or SonarScanner Begin still halted the composite action and skipped Build and Test Coverage — trading a masked Sonar failure for a lost compile-and-test signal, the more valuable of the two.

  • Build and Test Coverage now carry if: ${{ !cancelled() }}.
  • The eligibility step no longer exits 1 on a missing token. Failing there would have skipped Setup .NET and Restore dependencies, leaving Build to fail for an unrelated reason. It records a misconfigured output instead, and a new final Fail on missing SonarCloud token step fails the job once build and test have run.

Net effect: a Sonar problem still fails the job, but never suppresses the compile-and-test result.

This was reported by Sourcery (broader_impact) and Codex (P2) against the equivalent workflow in mrploch/ploch-common#297; the same exposure existed here and was fixed in 04a98e3.

Hardening

  • Inputs are read from the environment rather than interpolated into the command line, so a value containing quotes cannot break out of the call.
  • Native exit codes are checked explicitly (if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { exit $LASTEXITCODE }). GitHub only appends an exit-code check after the last statement of a pwsh block, so a failing dotnet call mid-script would otherwise pass silently. This was raised by codeant-ai on fix(build-test-sonar)!: Authenticate Sonar scanner with sonar.token #3 for the script variant.
  • SonarScanner End now runs under !cancelled() rather than being skipped after a failed build, so the analysis opened by begin is always closed out and the PR still gets decorated.

Documentation

The README was a two-line stub. It now documents the action, all eight inputs, the mandatory fetch-depth: 0 on checkout, the requirement to disable SonarCloud Automatic Analysis, and the fork-PR behaviour.

Design decisions

  • Skip rather than fail on fork PRs, instead of adding a fail-on-missing-token input. A boolean input pushes the decision onto every caller and gets set wrong. The action can detect the fork case itself from the event context, and the correct behaviour is not ambiguous.
  • Build and test are deliberately left ungated. The value of a fork PR check is that the code compiles and the tests pass; losing that because a secret is unavailable is the actual bug being fixed here.
  • Kept ploch-common's exclusion list verbatim as the default, including the repo-specific **/JetbrainsAnnotations.cs and **/TestAssemblies/** entries. They are harmless no-ops elsewhere, and matching the reference configuration exactly is the point of this PR. Consumers override the input if they need something different.
  • sonar-project-version defaults to empty rather than to a git SHA. A SHA would change every commit, which is worse than no version at all for the "Previous version" definition. The Action Properties step logs a note when it is unset.

Testing

No CI workflow exists in this repository to exercise the action, so verification was done locally:

  • YAML parses; 8 inputs and 11 steps resolve as expected.
  • PowerShell syntax — all 9 embedded run: blocks extracted and parsed with [System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]::ParseFile on pwsh 7.6.3. Zero parse errors.
  • Eligibility logic — the step was executed as a real pwsh -File process across 5 scenarios (token present same-repo; token absent fork PR; token absent Dependabot PR; token absent same-repo; whitespace-only token), asserting exit code, GITHUB_OUTPUT contents and log output. All matched the table above. Whitespace-only tokens are correctly treated as absent.
  • Eligibility expression — the SECRETS_WITHHELD GitHub expression was simulated across push, same-repo human PR, fork PR, Dependabot PR and Dependabot-from-fork PR, asserting that the flag is the exact inverse of secret availability in every case.
  • Argument constructionSonarScanner Begin was run against a dotnet stub across 3 permutations (version + exclusions, no version, exclusions disabled), confirming /v: and sonar.coverage.exclusions appear only when their inputs are non-empty and that no argument is malformed.

Not verified: a real end-to-end SonarCloud analysis. That requires a consuming repository to bump to this ref. Recommend validating on one repo before others adopt it.

Breaking changes

None to the input contract — both new inputs are optional.

Two behaviour changes consumers should know about:

  • Coverage percentages will rise on first analysis, because test projects and scripts are now excluded from the coverage denominator.
  • Fork/Dependabot PRs that previously failed on the missing token will now go green with a warning.

Related

…fork-PR guard

Brings the shared action up to parity with the SonarCloud configuration
ploch-common grew inline after it stopped consuming this action.

Adds two optional inputs: sonar-project-version, passed as /v: so the
"Previous version" new-code definition has a version history to diff
against, and sonar-coverage-exclusions so test projects and scripts are
not scored as uncovered production code.

Broadens the OpenCover glob to coverage*.opencover.xml — Coverlet emits
one file per assembly for multi-project solutions, so the previous exact
filename silently missed most of the coverage. Also sets
sonar.scm.provider and sonar.projectBaseDir explicitly.

Replaces the unconditional token validation with a sonar-eligibility
step. Secrets are not exposed to pull requests from forks, so an absent
token there now skips the scanner steps with a warning while build and
test still run, instead of failing the whole check. An absent token on a
same-repository run remains a hard error.

Scanner arguments are read from the environment rather than interpolated
into the command line, and native exit codes are checked explicitly
because pwsh only propagates the last statement's status.

Documents the action in the README, including the fetch-depth: 0
requirement and the need to disable SonarCloud Automatic Analysis.

Refs: #4
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Walkthrough

The shared repository README now documents build-test-sonar. The action adds project-version and coverage-exclusion inputs, supports fork and Dependabot pull requests without SonarCloud secrets, broadens coverage discovery, and separates analysis from build and test execution.

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SonarCloud action flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Action inputs and documentation
build-test-sonar/action.yml, README.md
The action adds optional project-version and coverage-exclusion inputs. The README documents usage, requirements, token handling, coverage, and failure behavior.
Analysis eligibility and tool setup
build-test-sonar/action.yml
The action skips SonarCloud setup for fork and Dependabot pull requests without tokens, defers misconfiguration failures, and keeps .NET setup and restore unconditional.
Scanner, coverage, and finalization
build-test-sonar/action.yml
Scanner arguments include project metadata, Git settings, configurable exclusions, and multi-assembly coverage paths. Build, test, finalization, and deferred token failures follow scanner state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 04a98

If Java setup fails, the action can continue into build and test without the requested .NET SDK or restored dependencies, causing misleading failures or invalid results. This bounded runtime issue should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant SonarCloudSetup
  participant SonarScanner
  participant DotnetBuildTest
  GitHubActions->>GitHubActions: Evaluate token and pull-request source
  GitHubActions->>SonarCloudSetup: Enable or skip SonarCloud setup
  GitHubActions->>SonarScanner: Begin analysis when enabled
  SonarScanner->>DotnetBuildTest: Provide analysis environment
  DotnetBuildTest->>DotnetBuildTest: Restore, build, and test
  DotnetBuildTest->>SonarScanner: Finalize analysis when started
  GitHubActions->>GitHubActions: Report deferred token misconfiguration
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address all coding objectives in issue #4, including configuration inputs, coverage handling, token guards, and build/test continuity.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: project version, coverage exclusions, and protection for fork pull requests.
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The current implementation of IS_FORK_PR relies on github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository, which is insufficient for Dependabot PRs because they originate from the same repository and thus do not trigger the fork-based skip logic. To correctly identify Dependabot PRs, you should update the IS_FORK_PR condition to include the Dependabot actor.

Update the IS_FORK_PR environment variable definition in build-test-sonar/action.yml as follows:

IS_FORK_PR: ${{ (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository) || github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}

This change ensures that Dependabot-authored pull requests are correctly identified as eligible for skipping the SonarCloud analysis when the token is empty, allowing the build and test steps to proceed.

build-test-sonar/action.yml

IS_FORK_PR: ${{ (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository) || github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}

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In `@build-test-sonar/action.yml`:
- Around line 59-70: Update the SonarCloud eligibility check in the PowerShell
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IS_FORK_PR is false. Preserve the existing token-present behavior and skip
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The eligibility check tested only head.repo.full_name != github.repository,
which is false for a Dependabot pull request because the branch lives in
this repository. GitHub nevertheless withholds ordinary Actions secrets
from Dependabot, so an empty token reached the hard-error path and the
build and test steps never ran — the exact failure the fork guard was
added to prevent.

Adds the author check to the condition and renames the flag to
SECRETS_WITHHELD, since it now covers both cases rather than forks alone.
Warning text, input documentation and README updated to match.

Raised independently by Codex (P1) and CodeRabbit (Major) on PR #5.

Refs: #4
…ures

Gating the scanner steps was not enough: a failed eligibility check, tool
install or `begin` still halted the composite action and skipped Build
and Test, trading a masked Sonar failure for a lost compile-and-test
signal — the more valuable of the two.

Build and Test Coverage now carry if: !cancelled(). The eligibility step
no longer exits 1 on a missing token either, because failing there would
skip Setup .NET and Restore and leave Build failing for an unrelated
reason; it records a misconfigured output instead, and a new final step
fails the job once build and test have run.

Reported against the equivalent ploch-common workflow by Sourcery
(broader_impact) and Codex (P2); the same exposure existed here.

Refs: #4

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166-177: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep .NET setup and restore runnable after a Sonar setup failure.

If actions/setup-java fails, GitHub skips the unguarded Setup .NET and Restore dependencies steps because they use the implicit success() condition. The later Build and Test Coverage steps can then run without the requested SDK or restored packages.

Add if: ${{ !cancelled() }} to both .NET steps, or move them before the conditional Java setup.

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In `@build-test-sonar/action.yml` around lines 166 - 177, Update the Setup .NET
and Restore dependencies steps to use if: ${{ !cancelled() }}, matching the
existing Build and Test Coverage conditions, so they still run after an
actions/setup-java failure; leave the Java setup and later build/test steps
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In `@build-test-sonar/action.yml`:
- Around line 166-177: Update the Setup .NET and Restore dependencies steps to
use if: ${{ !cancelled() }}, matching the existing Build and Test Coverage
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Java setup and later build/test steps unchanged.

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