Troubleshooting Common Issues

Troubleshooting Common Issues

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Follow these tips to fix common Salesforce Code Analyzer (Code Analyzer) issues.

Issues with scanner:run

I sometimes see more rules violations when I specify categories with scanner:run command than when I execute it for the same target without filters. What is this inconsistency?

It’s actually working as designed. Some rules are default-enabled by ESLint, while some other rules aren’t. Executing scanner:run without filters causes only default-enabled rules to be invoked, and specifying a category filter with scanner:run includes all rules under the selected categories to be invoked irrespective of their default-enabled setting. As of today, we don’t provide a way to modify default-enable settings for rules.

The scanner:run command results in the JavaScript heap out of memory error.

Code Analyzer’s node process runs with a default limit of 2 GB of memory. This limit can be changed by configuring the max-old-space-size node option. The required memory depends on the files included in the --target parameter. This example increases the memory value to 4 GB for a single invocation of the Code Analyzer.

$ NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096" sfdx scanner:run --target "./**/*.ts"

The scanner:run command throws a ParseException when executing against my Visualforce files as target.

Check to see if the affected Visualforce pages or components render correctly.

If your Visualforce pages or components include HTML tags that include PMD attributes, review PMD-Visualforce open issues. PMD can provide the fix for you.

Issues with scanner:run and eslint-typescript

The scanner:run command output contains the message '<file_name>' doesn’t reside in a location that is included by your tsconfig.json 'include' attribute.

The ESLint engine requires that any scanned TypeScript files must be included by the tsconfig. Read more in the typescript-eslint GitHub repo.

Update your tsconfig’s include attribute to include <file_name>.

The scanner:run command fails with the error Unable to find 'tsconfig.json' in current directory X, even though I’m not scanning any TypeScript files.

The most likely cause is that you’re scanning TypeScript files without realizing it.

If you’re using a dependency management framework like Yarn, Bower, or npm, make sure that SFCA ignores those folders because dependent modules can have TypeScript files that you don’t know about.

Make sure that the entries for ESLint and eslint-typescript in ${HOME}/.sfdx-scanner/Config.json exclude the folder used by your framework. For example, to exclude Yarn and npm dependencies, add !**/node_modules/** to the targetPatterns property, and add !**/bower_components/** to exclude Bower dependencies.

Issues with Custom Rules

My custom rule Java file doesn’t compile.

  • Make sure that you reference only PMD features and classes that are available in version 6.43.0.
  • Check that you’re using correct syntax.
  • Check that the compilation CLASSPATH contains the correct version of the PMD binary.

I successfully created my rule XML and added it using the scanner:rule:add command, but scanner:rule:list doesn’t display my custom rules.

  • Double-check that the rules in your XML are exclusively XPath-based. If any of the rules use custom Java, then a JAR is required.
  • Ensure that the XML’s path includes category as a directory.

I successfully created my JAR file and added it using the scanner:rule:add command, but scanner:rule:list doesn’t display my custom rules.

  • Check that the XML rule definition file is included in the JAR. Run jar tf /your/jar/file.JAR to list the files in your JAR.
  • Make sure that your XML file is in a PATH that includes category as a directory.
  • Check that your class files are included in the JAR.
  • Confirm that the PATH to the class files reflects the package structure in the Java file.

The scanner:rule:list command displays my new custom rules in the catalog, but when I run them I get an error about the Java version.

One possible reason is that the Java version you used to build your code is different from the version Code Analyzer uses to invoke PMD. Make sure that you compile your Java code with the same Java version and path that’s listed in the java-home key in <HOME_DIR>/.sfdx-scanner/Config.json.

The scanner:rule:list command displays my new custom rules in the catalog, but when I run a rule, I get a ClassNotFoundException.

One possible reason is that you referenced a class in your custom rule Java code from the PMD library that’s not available in version 6.55.0. Make sure that you reference only PMD features and classes that are available in version 6.55.0.

Issues with Custom Config

When using --eslintconfig flag, I get a Can’t find module <some_module> error

In the directory where you execute the scanner:run command, install the required ESLint dependencies using npm install <some_module>.

Issues Common to Multiple Commands

Commands display Javascript isn’t currently supported by the PMD engine.

Version 6.x of PMD has a Known Issue that causes a Java OutOfMemoryError when scanning some Javascript files. Scanning Javascript with PMD was removed from the current version of SFCA. We plan to restore this feature in a future version. To resolve this error, make these changes to the PMD engine node in your ${HOME}/.sfdx-scanner/Config.json file.

Remove the **/*.js element from PMD engine’s targetpatterns array.

Remove the javascript element from PMD engine’s supportedLanguages array.

Example:

{
    "engines": [
        {
            "name": "pmd",
            "targetPatterns": [
                "**/*.cls",
                "**/*.trigger",
                "**/*.java",
                "**/*.js",          // REMOVE THIS LINE
                "**/*.page",
                "**/*.component",
                "**/*.xml",
                "!**/node_modules/**",
                "!**/*-meta.xml"
            ],
            "supportedLanguages": [
                "apex",             // REMOVE THIS TRAILING COMMA
                "javascript"        // REMOVE THIS
            ]
        },
... Rest of file removed for clarity ...

What languages are supported with PMD?

We removed the PMD support for all languages except:

  • Apex
  • Java
  • Visualforce
  • XML

Remove any languages besides the languages in PMD engine’s supportedLanguages array in your ${HOME}/.sfdx-scanner/Config.json file. Create an issue on our Github repo to request that we add more languages.

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