How to use PMD violationSuppressRegex with Sonar?

Question

PMD allows suppressing violations with the violationSuppressRegex property. See PMD documentation Violation Suppress Regex.

For example for the LooseCoupling Rule.

Is there any way to use this functionality in Sonar?

Example

Suppress Loose Coupling violation for LinkedHashSet in PMD:

<rule ref="rulesets/coupling.xml/LooseCoupoing">
  <property name="violationSuppressRegex" value=".*'LinkedHashSet'.*"/>
</rule>

Where the violation message is something like:

You should not use 'LinkedHashSet' but an interface.

Answer 1

violationSuppressRegex is a new property in PMD 5.0. And Sonar uses PMD 4.3.

Looks like I'll have to wait until Sonar upgrades PMD :-(

Answer 2

You might want to have a look at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Switch+Off+Violations+Plugin