Unable to integrate SonarQube analysis results with VSTS Build Summary - sonarqube

Question

I am using Prepare, Run and Publish analysis tasks in VSTS to run the SonarQube analysis and publish the results to build summary. First two steps execute successfully but the 'Publish Analysis' task fails because it is not able to fetch the task for analysis ID. I get the following error message:
Could not fetch task for ID 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-'
VSTS Publish Analysis Task Log:
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1037139Z ##[debug][SQ] Waiting for task 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-' to complete.
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1037139Z ##[debug][SQ] API GET: '/api/ce/task' with query "{"id":"AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-"}"
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1047138Z ##[debug][SQ] Publish task error: [SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-'
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1047138Z ##[debug]task result: Failed
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1047138Z ##[error][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-'
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1047138Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-'
2018-01-28T18:15:28.1047138Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWE9-wu8-fbfJflhFQ3-'
2018-01-28T18:15:28.3907147Z ##[section]Finishing: Publish Analysis Result

Answer 1

I was seeing the exact same problem as Vignesh. Running SonarQube 6.7.1 and latest version of VSTS SonarQube extension.
I found out what the problem was; it's in the SonarQube VSTS Extensions (Prepare, Analyse & Publish).
The SonarQube extension uses basic authentication to communicate with the SonarQube API endpoint, and uses the token as username, and password as null.
The npm package 'request' (at least latest version 2.83.0), does not allow null passwords and returns 'auth() received invalid user or password'.
To fix it, the password should be set to an empty string instead.
Until the VSTS plugin is fixed by SonarSource, you can workaround the issue by manually editing the extension on your VSTS build machine. The file to edit is: <build location>\_tasks\SonarQubePublish_291ed61f-1ee4-45d3-b1b0-bf822d9095ef\4.0.0\common\helpers\request.js
Add a new row after row 22:
options.auth.pass = "";
The endresult should be something like:
var options = {
auth: endpoint.auth
};
if (query) {
options.qs = query;
options.useQuerystring = true;
}
options.auth.pass = "";
request.get(__assign({ method: 'GET', baseUrl: endpoint.url, uri: path, json: true }, options), function (error, response, body) {
I give no guarantees, but this worked for me.

Answer 2

We are using the TFS extension in version 4.0.1 and the failure is still there.
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7065486Z ##[debug][SQ] Waiting for task 'AWFv1Mcg5obW39zt_5IE' to complete.
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7065486Z ##[debug][SQ] API GET: '/api/ce/task' with query "{"id":"AWFv1Mcdgfdg39zt_5IE"}"
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7690509Z ##[debug][SQ] Publish task error: [SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWFv1Mcdgfdg39zt_5IE'
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7690509Z ##[debug]task result: Failed
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7690509Z ##[error][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWFv1Mcdgfdg39zt_5IE'
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7690509Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWFv1Mcdgfdg39zt_5IE'
2018-02-07T10:34:41.7690509Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.complete result=Failed;][SQ] Could not fetch task for ID 'AWFv1Mcdgfdg39zt_5IE'
See screenshot here

Answer 3

This was indeed caused by passing a null password to the request library.
A fix have been deployed (version 4.0.1 of the SonarQube extension, version 4.0.1 of the publish task). See https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/VSTS-134