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YAML Anchors and References Break Schema Validation and Suggestions

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Describe the bug

When user anchors or references in CloudFormation YAML files, schemas stops working when anchors/references are used.

Expected Behavior

It works as normal.

Current Behavior

Following error keeps repeating as elements are hovered.

Error thrown while requesting schema "Error: end of the stream or a document separator is expected" when calling the registered contributor "cloudformation"

Steps to Reproduce

Add an anchor to any element

...
 Tags: &tags
   - Key: Application
     Value: MyApp
...

Environment

Windows
Mac
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Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6

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evidolobcommented, Mar 4, 2021

It is bug kddejong.vscode-cfn-lint in as they use node-yaml-parser to parse yaml and it seems it not support yaml anchor’s. I will investigate more next week, we need to improve our behavior in case if contributing extension fails.

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svrxcommented, Mar 4, 2021

Thanks. Already opened issue with then about the issue. https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code/issues/158

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