SonarSource

SonarSource Qualityprofiles API

Manage quality profiles.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Software Quality Engineering BC-4200.50

Operations 22

POST /api/qualityprofiles/activate_rule Activate a rule on a Quality Profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/activate_rules Bulk-activate rules on one quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/add_project Associate a project with a quality profile. #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/backup Backup a quality profile in XML form. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/change_parent Change a quality profile's parent. #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/changelog Get the history of changes on a quality profile: rule activation/deactivation… #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/copy Copy a quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/create Create a quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/deactivate_rule Deactivate a rule on a quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/deactivate_rules Bulk deactivate rules on Quality profiles. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/delete Delete a quality profile and all its descendants. #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/export Deprecated. Use GET /api/qualityprofiles/backup instead #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/exporters Deprecated. No more custom profile exporters #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/importers Deprecated. No more custom profile importers #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/inheritance Show a quality profile's ancestors and children #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/projects List projects with their association status regarding a quality profile #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/remove_project Remove a project's association with a quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/rename Rename a quality profile. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/restore Restore a quality profile using an XML file. #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/restore_built_in This web service has no effect since 6.4. #
GET /api/qualityprofiles/search Search quality profiles #
POST /api/qualityprofiles/set_default Select the default profile for a given language. #

Documentation

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APIReference
https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/advanced-setup/web-api/
📖
Documentation
https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/advanced-setup/web-api/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sonarsource/refs/heads/main/openapi/sonarsource-qualityprofiles-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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DataModel
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sonarsource/refs/heads/main/data-model/sonarsource-data-model.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

sonarsource-qualityprofiles-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: SonarQube Cloud Web Qualityprofiles API
  version: v1
  description: The SonarQube Cloud Web API, derived faithfully from the machine-readable service catalog the instance publishes at /api/webservices/list.
  x-derived-from: https://sonarcloud.io/api/webservices/list
  contact:
    name: SonarSource
    url: https://community.sonarsource.com/
servers:
- url: https://sonarcloud.io
security:
- bearerToken: []
- basicToken: []
tags:


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