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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 16:04:56 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-28 16:04:56 +0000 |
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diff --git a/src/ansiblelint/rules/yaml.md b/src/ansiblelint/rules/yaml.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03055d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/ansiblelint/rules/yaml.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +# yaml + +This rule checks YAML syntax and is an implementation of `yamllint`. + +You can disable YAML syntax violations by adding `yaml` to the `skip_list` in +your Ansible-lint configuration as follows: + +```yaml +skip_list: + - yaml +``` + +For more fine-grained control, disable violations for specific rules using tag +identifiers in the `yaml[yamllint_rule]` format as follows: + +```yaml +skip_list: + - yaml[trailing-spaces] + - yaml[indentation] +``` + +If you want Ansible-lint to report YAML syntax violations as warnings, and not +fatal errors, add tag identifiers to the `warn_list` in your configuration, for +example: + +```yaml +warn_list: + - yaml[document-start] +``` + +See the +[list of yamllint rules](https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rules.html) +for more information. + +Some of the detailed error codes that you might see are: + +- `yaml[brackets]` - _too few spaces inside empty brackets_, or _too many spaces + inside brackets_ +- `yaml[colons]` - _too many spaces before colon_, or _too many spaces after + colon_ +- `yaml[commas]` - _too many spaces before comma_, or _too few spaces after + comma_ +- `yaml[comments-indentation]` - _Comment not indented like content_ +- `yaml[comments]` - _Too few spaces before comment_, or _Missing starting space + in comment_ +- `yaml[document-start]` - _missing document start "---"_ or _found forbidden + document start "---"_ +- `yaml[empty-lines]` - _too many blank lines (...> ...)_ +- `yaml[indentation]` - _Wrong indentation: expected ... but found ..._ +- `yaml[key-duplicates]` - _Duplication of key "..." in mapping_ +- `yaml[new-line-at-end-of-file]` - _No new line character at the end of file_ +- `yaml[octal-values]`: forbidden implicit or explicit [octal](#octals) value +- `yaml[syntax]` - YAML syntax is broken +- `yaml[trailing-spaces]` - Spaces are found at the end of lines +- `yaml[truthy]` - _Truthy value should be one of ..._ + +## Octals + +As [YAML specification] regarding octal values changed at least 3 times in +[1.1], [1.2.0] and [1.2.2] we now require users to always add quotes around +octal values, so the YAML loaders will all load them as strings, providing a +consistent behavior. This is also safer as JSON does not support octal values +either. + +By default, yamllint does not check for octals but our custom default ruleset +for it does check these. If for some reason, you do not want to follow our +defaults, you can create a `.yamllint` file in your project and this will take +precedence over our defaults. + +## Problematic code + +```yaml +# Missing YAML document start. +foo: 0777 # <-- yaml[octal-values] +foo2: 0o777 # <-- yaml[octal-values] +foo2: ... # <-- yaml[key-duplicates] +bar: ... # <-- yaml[comments-indentation] +``` + +## Correct code + +```yaml +--- +foo: "0777" # <-- Explicitly quoting octal is less risky. +foo2: "0o777" # <-- Explicitly quoting octal is less risky. +bar: ... # Correct comment indentation. +``` + +[1.1]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.1/ +[1.2.0]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.0/ +[1.2.2]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ +[yaml specification]: https://yaml.org/ |