Yesterday we changed the rules of one of our projects on Sonar 5.6.1, and since then the analysis is failing with the error below.
Stack:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Value is too long for issue author login: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:148) ~[guava-17.0.jar:na]
at org.sonar.db.issue.IssueDto.setAuthorLogin(IssueDto.java:353) ~[sonar-db-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.db.issue.IssueDto.toDtoForComputationInsert(IssueDto.java:129) ~[sonar-db-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.step.PersistIssuesStep.execute(PersistIssuesStep.java:69) ~[sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.step.ComputationStepExecutor.executeSteps(ComputationStepExecutor.java:64) ~[sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.step.ComputationStepExecutor.execute(ComputationStepExecutor.java:52) ~[sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.taskprocessor.report.ReportTaskProcessor.process(ReportTaskProcessor.java:75) ~[sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.taskprocessor.CeWorkerCallableImpl.executeTask(CeWorkerCallableImpl.java:81) [sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.taskprocessor.CeWorkerCallableImpl.call(CeWorkerCallableImpl.java:56) [sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.server.computation.taskprocessor.CeWorkerCallableImpl.call(CeWorkerCallableImpl.java:35) [sonar-server-5.6.1.jar:na]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_101]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_101]
2017.01.30 16:42:28 ERROR [o.s.s.c.t.CeWorkerCallableImpl] Executed task | project=sgl | type=REPORT | id=AVnwr0Dz3syUbWgWOt8O | submitter=jenkins | time=13516ms
The message is right... because of a configuration error, an user commited some changesets with a giant login (300+)... we cannot change the changesets (they were already pushed, and a long time ago)
1 - What can we do to stop this error on sonar?
2 - Why this error only showed up after we changed the rules? (I think it was because the old rules generated no issue on the files of the changesets with the giant login...)