SONAR-18242 Clarify error message when creating new project without permissions during scan

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
index 3c5b422c77e..a53e81dc407 100644
--- a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
+++ b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/main/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClient.java
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ public class DefaultScannerWsClient implements ScannerWsClient {
         + "Please provide a user token in %s or other credentials in %s and %s.", CoreProperties.LOGIN, CoreProperties.LOGIN, CoreProperties.PASSWORD));
     }
     if (code == HTTP_FORBIDDEN) {
-      throw MessageException.of("You're not authorized to run analysis. Please contact the project administrator.");
+      throw MessageException.of("You're not authorized to analyze this project or the project doesn't exist on SonarQube" +
+        " and you're not authorized to create it. Please contact an administrator.");
     }
     if (code == HTTP_BAD_REQUEST) {
       String jsonMsg = tryParseAsJsonError(response.content());
diff --git a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/test/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClientTest.java b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/test/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClientTest.java
index df4aaffb90d..cf2c26e7a15 100644
--- a/sonar-scanner-engine/src/test/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClientTest.java
+++ b/sonar-scanner-engine/src/test/java/org/sonar/scanner/bootstrap/DefaultScannerWsClientTest.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public class DefaultScannerWsClientTest {
     assertThatThrownBy(() -> new DefaultScannerWsClient(wsClient, true,
       new GlobalAnalysisMode(new ScannerProperties(Collections.emptyMap())), analysisWarnings).call(request))
         .isInstanceOf(MessageException.class)
-        .hasMessage("You're not authorized to run analysis. Please contact the project administrator.");
+        .hasMessage("You're not authorized to analyze this project or the project doesn't exist on SonarQube and you're not authorized to create it. Please contact an administrator.");
   }
 
   @Test