Sonar and MAVEN POM file with Dependencies - maven-3

Question

I have setup Maven and Sonar to analyze .NET projects and it works fine for winforms projects. However when I add an MVC project it gives a build Failure because it can't find the System.Web.MVC.dll file. I have an Fx-Cop plugin that runs as part of Sonar.
One way to get around this would be to package the dll, copy local= true with the project. However I dont want to do that(any thing wrong with packaging the MVC file along?)
How do I add a dependency to the MVC dll? I followed this example and added it like this:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>artifact_group_id</groupId>
<artifactId>System.WEb.MVC</artifactId>
<version>4.0.30319</version>
<type>library</type>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>C:\DOTNET\DLLS\System.Web.Mvc.dll</systemPath>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Still I get a Build Failure caused by FX-Cop. Looking at the FX-Cop logs I get a message as below:
The following error was encountered while reading module 'MyTestMvcApp': Assembly reference cannot be resolved: System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35.
I'm using apache-maven-3.0.2 and sonar-3.2. Can anyone help with this?
This is the full POM.XML file
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>Test</groupId>
<artifactId>Sonar.For.NET.Test</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>Testing </name>
<packaging>netpack</packaging>
<properties>
<visual.studio.solution>TestProjectsForSonarBuild.sln</visual.studio.solution>
<visual.test.project.pattern>*.Tests;*Test</visual.test.project.pattern>
<dotnet.tool.version>4.0</dotnet.tool.version>
<sonar.language>cs</sonar.language>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>artifact_group_id</groupId>
<artifactId>System.WEb.MVC</artifactId>
<version>4.0.30319</version>
<type>library</type>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>C:\DOTNET\DLLS\System.Web.Mvc.dll</systemPath>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.sonar-plugins.dotnet</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dotnet-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.6</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<toolVersion>3.5</toolVersion>
<buildConfigurations>Debug</buildConfigurations>
<rebuild>true</rebuild>
<language>cs</language>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You can use the "sonar.fxcop.assemblyDependencyDirectories" property as described on the documentation page for the FxCop plugin.
So you have 2 solutions from there:
either your build process copies "System.Web.MVC.dll" in a temp folder, which you reference through the this property
or you directly reference an absolute path where this DLL can be found (but your property may then be not portable accros different environments/servers)