Add settings to configure `ansible-playbook --syntax-check`

Problem

I have the following setup:

• ansible
  • roles
  • dev
    • roles
    • dev.yml
  • ansible.cfg

Whenever I execute the dev/dev.yml playbook, I’m always located inside the ansible folder.
Inside my ansible.cfg, I have extended the roles_path to tell ansible to look for roles inside the ./roles as well as the ./dev/roles.
My dev/dev.yml playbook uses roles from both folders and it works perfectly fine.

However, when I try to edit the dev/dev.yml file in VSCode, I get an error stating that the roles cannot be found:

Command failed: ansible-playbook /myrepo/ansible/dev/dev.yml --syntax-check
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that
the implicit localhost does not match 'all'
ERROR! the role 'myrole' was not found in <default paths>

Solution

From what I found by searching this repository, the README and the settings of the extension, there is no way to configure the behavior of syntax checking when it’s done using ansible-playbook. I would like to either disable the checking entirely or be able to change the configuration to tell it to take my ansible.cfg into account. Or simply extend the role_paths directly even if it’s not DRY.

Alternatives

Disabling the Ansible extension entirely.
Attempted to switch to ansible-lint but ticking the checkbox didn’t change anything.

Additional context

No response

[cedsana]

Yes, opening the ansible folder as the vscode root works properly.

[cedsana]

@priyamsahoo Sorry to bother you again but could we reopen this issue, please?