Use the Snyk plugin to secure your Eclipse projects
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Once the language server is downloaded and the authentication is completed, the plugin starts the workspace scan. You might notice a confirmation that a workspace scan is starting. Alternatively, you can trigger a workspace scan from your project's context menu, or from the Snyk View.
All of the issues found by Snyk are now integrated natively with Eclipse flows. Issues are shown in the Problems tab as shown in the following screenshot. There is a squiggly line indicating the issue while you code plus gutter icons to indicate where the issue is.
Additionally, starting with version 3+, we provide a custom UI in the Snyk Tab, that displays issue details:
To filter the displayed issues to only display the issues introduced in the working directory, net new issues scan can be activated. This requires a git repository to work:
First, we scan the git master or main branch, or any reference branch selected in the Snyk View.
Second, we scan the working directory
We calculate the difference between both and only display the difference
Click on the project node, to open the branch chooser dialog.
Choose the branch that is the reference against which new issues shall be calculated
Continue by following the instructions on the page for the type of scan you are doing:
