Errors on yaml.validate: true

Environment:

• macOS
• cfn-lint: 0.29.5
• vs code: 1.44.2
• vscode-cfn-lint: 0.11.1
• vscode-yaml: 0.7.2
• no other yaml extension installed

Problem

This extension is setting yaml.validate to false whenever it starts. As I understand this is done because, with the default setting (true), a lot of false errors are shown.

Leaving out that’s a bad practice to edit other extension’s settings with no user consent/notice, my first question is:

• Why disabling the validation instead of fixing the bug?

I noticed other closed issues on this topic, but it seems the problem was never resolved. Since I think that we should be able to work with the validation enabled, I want to ask:

• Will there ever be an effort to make this extension work with yaml.validate: true?

[kddejong]

I’m working on a new way to include the yaml language server that should resolve these issues. its a bigger rewrite to the plugin but should allow us to completely decouple from the vscode-yaml extension.

[riccardopedrielli]

Another problem of writing yaml.validate: false into the settings.json of vs code is also that the validation is disabled for every other yaml file, be it a cfn o just a regular yaml.