Directly download all required plugins when installing sonar-devon4j-plugin from the marketplace

[lmarniazman]

As a SonarQube admin, I want to have all required plugins for sonar-devon4j-plugin installed directly, so that I don't have to do it manually.

Since our quality profile depends on plugins from third-parties, these need to be installed on the SonarQube server as well, in order for our plugin to function properly. As of now, this step has to be done manually by the SQ admin.

I came across this Apigee plugin, that apparently installs one of its dependent plugins automatically (see picture). We should look into how this is possible and if we want to adopt this practice for the sonar-devon4j-plugin.

[hohwille]

Great finding! 👍
Looks as if SonarQube does support dependencies for plugins so we only have to add something in our config.

[hohwille]

The solution is simple and can be found here:
https://github.com/CreditMutuelArkea/sonar-apigee-plugin/blob/4fbb20b9ccb5b3fd66f1871e87f2656f86d7e279/pom.xml#L140

[hohwille]

This story is implemented. However, due to problems of issue #141 and problems with availability or lack of maintenance of codesmells plugin, I did not add this plugin.
We therefore have to remove the according rules from https://github.com/devonfw/sonar-devon4j-plugin/blob/335b87078bd3b3b59bb4161322ebcbe92376918e/plugin/src/main/resources/com/devonfw/ide/sonarqube/common/rules/devon4j/devon4j.xml

Finally, this can only be tested after we have pushed out a new release and published this to the eclipse marketplace by declaring it here.