1.2.0

Added

• Support for on-demand plugin downloading, which is being introduced in SonarQube 10.4.
• Support for the LLVM symbol, which is defined on LLVM-based toolchains from Delphi 12 onward.
• Support for the IOSSIMULATOR symbol, which is defined on the DCCIOSSIMARM64 toolchain.
• FormDfm analysis rule, which flags VCL forms/frames that lack a .dfm resource.
• FormFmx analysis rule, which flags FireMonkey forms/frames that lack a .fmx resource.
• FormatArgumentCount analysis rule, which flags Format calls where the number of format arguments does not match the number of format specifiers.
• FormatArgumentType analysis rule, which flags Format arguments with types that are incompatible with their corresponding format specifiers.
• FormatStringValid analysis rule, which flags Format calls with invalid format strings.
• API: CompilerDirectiveParser now returns a new ResourceDirective type when parsing resource directives.

Changed

• Alternative casings Writeln and Readln are now allowed in MixedNames.
• Improve clarity of the rule description for EmptyRoutine.

Fixed

• Parsing errors on .dpr files without a top-level begin.
• Symbol table errors on declarations that shared a name with a unit import.
• Symbol table executor failures on include directives that include multiple symbol declarations or references.
• The Copy intrinsic inferred an incorrect return type for PChar, PAnsiChar, and variants.
• The Concat intrinsic inferred an incorrect return type for single-character string literals.
• The ReadLn intrinsic was missing the standard input overload.
• Ideographic space (U+3000) was erroneously accepted as a valid identifier character.
• Duplicate imports in a requires clause now log a warning instead of throwing an exception.

1.1.0

Added

• Support for unicode characters in identifiers.
• Support for the NUnit 2.0 test results format (in addition to existing 3.0 support).
• ConsecutiveVarSection analysis rule, which flags consecutive var sections that can be merged.
• ConsecutiveConstSection analysis rule, which flags consecutive const sections that can be merged.
• ConsecutiveTypeSection analysis rule, which flags consecutive type sections that can be merged.
• ConsecutiveVisibilitySection analysis rule, which flags consecutive visibility sections that can be merged.
• excludeApi rule property to most of the Unused* rules:
  • Available for UnusedConstant, UnusedField, UnusedGlobalVariable, UnusedProperty, UnusedRoutine, and UnusedType.
  • Excludes public API (declared with public visibility in the interface section).
• API: VarSectionNode::isThreadVarSection method.
• API: ConstSectionNode::isResourceStringSection method.
• API: AttributeListNode::getAttributeTypes method.
• API: RoutineNameDeclaration::getAttributeTypes method.
• API: PropertyNameDeclaration::getAttributeTypes method.

Changed

• Improve type resolution on binary and unary expressions.
• Improve type comparisons between signed and unsigned integer types.
• Improve type comparisons between text types.
• Improve type conversions from character pointers to strings.
• Exclude routines annotated with attributes in UnusedRoutine.
• Exclude properties annotated with attributes in UnusedProperty.
• Exclude fields annotated with attributes in UnusedField.
• Improve type modeling around integer subranges.
• Issues raised on a hard cast expression now span the entire expression in UnicodeToAnsiCast, CharacterToCharacterPointerCast, NonLinearCast, RedundantCast, and PlatformDependentCast.
• Parsing errors now consistently surface the file and line where they occurred.
• Parsing errors now consistently skip the offending unit instead of crashing the scan.
• API: TypeSectionNode now implements Visibility.
• API: TypeDeclarationNode now implements Visibility.

Fixed

• The sonar.sourceEncoding option was used blindly in all cases, even when the correct encoding could be detected.
• Test sources were erroneously excluded from analysis.
• Key information was missing from "ambiguous declarations" warnings.
• Stack overflow on class reference types that reference their containing type.
• Scan failures on redundant unit aliases in .dproj files.
• Incorrect file position calculation for multiline compiler directives.
• Incorrect detection of method calls as hard casts in CastAndFree.
• Name resolution failures around helpers extending weak alias types.
• Various intrinsic routine signatures had incorrect return types.
• Various intrinsic routine signatures had incorrect or overly-restrictive parameter types.

1.0.0

Added

• Custom rules plugin API:
  • See: Writing Custom Delphi Rules 101
• Rule metadata for the new Clean Code Taxonomy.
• sonar.delphi.file.suffixes property to specify the file extensions that should be analyzed.
• sonar.delphi.exclusions property to specify file path patterns to exclude from analysis of Delphi files.
• sonar.delphi.test.attribute property to specify an attribute that will cause annotated types to be treated as test code.
• Support for the DCCOSXARM64 toolchain.
• Support for the DCCIOSSIMARM64 toolchain.
• Support for attributes in semantic analysis.
• Support for identifiers prefixed with 2 ampersands (&&).
• OleVariant overloads for VarArrayRedim and VarClear intrinsics.
• InlineAssembly analysis rule, which flags inline assembly usage.
• DigitSeparator analysis rule, which flags numeric literals that should use digit separators to improve readability.
• DigitGrouping analysis rule, which flags numeric literals that use non-standard digit groupings.
• AddressOfCharacterData analysis rule, which flags attempts to manually get the address of the first character in a string.
• NonLinearCast analysis rule, which flags unsafe object and pointer casts.
• IndexLastListElement analysis rule, which flags places where TList.Last should be used instead of manually indexing into the list.

Changed

• Rename all rule keys. (For example, ClassNameRule is now ClassName)
• Rewrite all rule descriptions.
• Rename plugin key from delphi to communitydelphi.
• Rename language key from delph to delphi.
• Rename repository key from delph to community-delphi.
• Rename repository from Delphi to Community Delphi.
• Rename sonar.delphi.bds.path property to sonar.delphi.installationPath.
• Rename sonar.delphi.compiler.toolchain property to sonar.delphi.toolchain.
• Rename sonar.delphi.compiler.version property to sonar.delphi.compilerVersion.'
• Rename sonar.delphi.sources.searchPath property to sonar.delphi.searchPath.'
• Rename sonar.delphi.testSuiteType property to sonar.delphi.testType.
• Clean up descriptions of all plugin properties.
• Exclude dpr and dpk files in UnusedImport.
• Exclude dpr and dpk files in ImportSpecificity.
• Exclude uses clauses of dpr and dpk files in LineTooLong.
• Include routines in UnitLevelKeywordIndentation.
• Include implicit attribute constructor calls in ForbiddenRoutine.
• Always enforce the Attribute suffix in AttributeName.
• Allow the Attribute suffix to be omitted for attribute references in MixedNames.
• Allow the extended type name to be anywhere in the helper name (rather than requiring it at the start) in HelperName.
• Take a fully-qualified type name for the parent type in InheritedTypeName, instead of a regular expression.
• Improve name resolution for declarations within types.
• Improve type resolution for array accesses into variants.
• Improve type resolution around constructor calls following array accesses in primary expressions.
• Improve parsing and type modeling around AnsiString types with specified code pages.
• Improve type modeling around type aliases.

Removed

• XPathTemplateRule analysis rule template.
• MemoryManagementRule analysis rule.
• EmptyTypeSection analysis rule.
• sonar.delphi.coverage.tool property.
  (Delphi Code Coverage is the only supported coverage tool.)

Fixed

• OSX(64) symbols weren't treated as defined on macOS.
• MACOS(32|64) symbols weren't treated as defined on iOS.
• Name collisions between generic and non-generic forward declarations.
• Incorrect type conversions from pointers to arrays.
• Fixed arrays were overly-eager to convert to dynamic arrays.
• Parsing errors around In operator overloads.
• Parsing errors around anonymous methods in array constructor expressions.
• Self was not consistently shadowed by method parameters.
• Incorrect token range calculation for binary expression nodes.
• Units referenced via DCCReference tags were not indexed in the symbol table.
• NPE on empty argument lists in TrailingCommaArgumentList.
• add is no longer colorized as a keyword in the SonarQube web interface.
• remove is no longer colorized as a keyword in the SonarQube web interface.
• variant is no longer colorized as a keyword in the SonarQube web interface.
• Parsing errors on unusual whitespace characters.
• Parsing errors on unusual escaped character, hex integer, and binary integer literals.