### JSON report totalIssues reflects capped count, not actual #3178

JSON report totalIssues reflects capped count, not actual

Medium Severity

When --max-problems is set, generateReport passes only the capped prioritized slice to outputJsonFormat. Inside that formatter, totalIssues: problems.length then reflects the capped count rather than the true total. The table format correctly receives all problems for counting and only the capped set for display, but JSON and SARIF consumers see a totalIssues that understates the real problem count, with no way to know problems were hidden.

 

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Originally posted by @cursor[bot] in #3080 (comment)