Can't exclude Explores using Config file with the new Spectacles 2.X

Hi, First of all, thanks a lot for your amazing work on Spectacles 2.X 🚀 I have been trying to adapt my Looker repo to the recent Spectacles version, and I think I run into a problem trying to exclude specific explores from the tests. I am using the SQL Validator and I want to pass the explores argument as part of my config.yml file. Since the --exclude arg was removed I need to do it using a leading hyphen for the explores that I want to exclude. I have been looking at your documentation though all the examples are only using the command line.

Basically the problem that I encountered is the following: From the command line this works perfectly and runs all explores in model_a excluding explore_b:

--explores "model_a/*" -model_a/explore_b

But the following code in config file still runs all explores in model_a and does not exclude the explore_b:

explores:
  - model_a/*
  - -model_a/explore_b

Very similar behaviour was observed with the following: From the command line this works perfectly and runs all explores in all models except for model_a/explore_b:

--explores -model_a/explore_b

But the following code in config file does not run anything and gives me the Testing 0 explores:

explores:
  - -model_a/explore_b

Would this be related to the fact that hyphen is used in yaml to specify the elements of a list? Or am I doing something wrong in my config file and in this case what should be the right syntax to exclude some specific explores from a model?

Sorry for bothering you, and thank you so much for your help! 🙂

[DylanBaker]

@mathieu-chiavassa Glad that sorted it! I’m actually going to leave the issue open as we’d like to make this work with just the dash in both setups.

[mathieu-chiavassa]

Hey @DylanBaker ! Amazing, yes it works like that with ~ 🚀 I’ll close the issue.

Thank you so much for your time today it was really helpful !