Sonar Cloud and Azure DevOps – Fixing [SQ] Task failed with status FAILED

A pull request build in Azure DevOps failed with the error: “[SQ] Task failed with status FAILED”.

This was the only information given, when de build failed.

Luckily, the manual build gave more information:

Error: /home/vsts/work/1/s/gradlew failed with return code: 1

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

2018-10-30T10:51:56.3943110Z

2018-10-30T10:51:56.3943526Z * What went wrong:

2018-10-30T10:51:56.3960616Z Execution failed for task ‘:sonarqube’.

2018-10-30T10:51:56.3961713Z > ‘feature/10691-fix-side-menu-not-working]-when-NOT-admin’ is not a valid branch name. It can only contain ‘A-Z’, ‘a-z’, ‘0-9’, ‘-‘, ‘_’, ‘.’, and ‘/’)

The problem was in the branch name, it accidentally contained a “]” character.