dbt packages uses version information in project detection

  Hi All,

I use VSCode.

• dbt version: 1.0.8
• python version: 3.9.12
• os info: macOS-11.6.2-x86_64-i386-64bit
• pipenv to create virtualenv’s
• zsh as my terminal
• snowflake

I have dbt Power User installed but quite a few the features don’t work. I can’t get it to do any of the following:

• Run current model
• terminal runs dbt list.
• parent / child model navigation
• no compiled SQL launch
• no hyperlink go to definition
• autocompletion

At startup, the terminal displays the following (truncating path to the project directory):

An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-expectations-0.5.5/dbt_project.yml'
An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-expectations-0.5.5/integration_tests/dbt_project.yml'
An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-date-0.5.7/dbt_project.yml'
An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-date-0.5.7/integration_tests/dbt_project.yml'
An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-utils-0.8.6/dbt_project.yml'
An error occurred while trying to refresh the project configuration: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../zion-data-modeling/dbt_packages/dbt-utils-0.8.6/integration_tests/dbt_project.yml'

The dbt_expectations package is in the root of the project, but not with the names inclusive of version as alluded to with the ENOENT error: But, these get installed via the dbt_expectations package in my packages.yml in the root of the project:

Any thoughts on what is going on here and how I might get around this issue? Appreciate any help with this in advance!

_Originally posted by @datanerd09 in https://github.com/innoverio/vscode-dbt-power-user/discussions/44#discussioncomment-3469435_

[mdesmet]

I don’t understand what you are trying to say in the last section, but obviously it’s not normal to find dbt_project.yml files in the compiled folder of a project. Also according to the error message your folder is called dbt_project.yml.

The extension just looks for any dbt_project.yml files and tries to register the containing folder as a project.

[mdesmet]

@datanerd09 : can you retest this with latest version?