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Failure to detect CloudFormation templates

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I have cfn-lint installed in my path but any time I’m working on a file I have no linter output and the output log shows only this message repeated for every save:

File 'file:///[elided]/service.yaml is a CFN? false

This happens whether I have it installed using Python 2 or 3, in the path or a separate virtualenv, or with the config cfn-lint path set or not. Is there a better way to get debug output to narrow down the cause?

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Created 5 years ago
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kddejongcommented, Oct 5, 2018

yea this has been trick @acdha because we don’t want to lint all yaml or json files that you may open so we use that string to determine if we should/can lint it. I’m open to suggestions here. Maybe we could log something that says we didn’t lint the file because it was missing the version.

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cmmeyercommented, Oct 3, 2018

We are using the CloudFormation version string within the template to determine if the file should be linted. Your template must containt the following string for the linter to pick it up:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: ‘2010-09-09’

Does that help?

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