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YAML Language Server
Supports JSON Schema 7 and below.
Features
- YAML validation:
- Detects whether the entire file is valid yaml
- Validation:
- Detects errors such as:
- Node is not found
- Node has an invalid key node type
- Node has an invalid type
- Node is not a valid child node
- Detects warnings such as:
- Node is an additional property of parent
- Detects errors such as:
- Auto completion:
- Auto completes on all commands
- Scalar nodes autocomplete to schema's defaults if they exist
- Hover support:
- Hovering over a node shows description if available
- Document outlining:
- Shows a complete document outline of all nodes in the document
Language Server Settings
The following settings are supported:
yaml.format.enable: Enable/disable default YAML formatter (requires restart)yaml.format.singleQuote: Use single quotes instead of double quotesyaml.format.bracketSpacing: Print spaces between brackets in objectsyaml.format.proseWrap: Always: wrap prose if it exeeds the print width, Never: never wrap the prose, Preserve: wrap prose as-isyaml.format.printWidth: Specify the line length that the printer will wrap onyaml.validate: Enable/disable validation featureyaml.hover: Enable/disable hoveryaml.completion: Enable/disable autocompletionyaml.schemas: Helps you associate schemas with files in a glob patternyaml.schemaStore.enable: When set to true the YAML language server will pull in all available schemas from JSON Schema Storeyaml.schemaStore.url: URL of a schema store catalog to use when downloading schemas.yaml.customTags: Array of custom tags that the parser will validate against. It has two ways to be used. Either an item in the array is a custom tag such as "!Ref" and it will automatically map !Ref to scalar or you can specify the type of the object !Ref should be e.g. "!Ref sequence". The type of object can be either scalar (for strings and booleans), sequence (for arrays), map (for objects).yaml.maxItemsComputed: The maximum number of outline symbols and folding regions computed (limited for performance reasons).[yaml].editor.tabSize: the number of spaces to use when autocompleting. Takes priority over editor.tabSize.editor.tabSize: the number of spaces to use when autocompleting. Default is 2.http.proxy: The URL of the proxy server that will be used when attempting to download a schema. If it is not set or it is undefined no proxy server will be used.http.proxyStrictSSL: If true the proxy server certificate should be verified against the list of supplied CAs. Default is false.[yaml].editor.formatOnType: Enable/disable on type indent and auto formatting array
Adding custom tags
In order to use the custom tags in your YAML file you need to first specify the custom tags in the setting of your code editor. For example, we can have the following custom tags:
"yaml.customTags": [
"!Scalar-example scalar",
"!Seq-example sequence",
"!Mapping-example mapping"
]The !Scalar-example would map to a scalar custom tag, the !Seq-example would map to a sequence custom tag, the !Mapping-example would map to a mapping custom tag.
We can then use the newly defined custom tags inside our YAML file:
some_key: !Scalar-example some_value
some_sequence: !Seq-example
- some_seq_key_1: some_seq_value_1
- some_seq_key_2: some_seq_value_2
some_mapping: !Mapping-example
some_mapping_key_1: some_mapping_value_1
some_mapping_key_2: some_mapping_value_2Associating a schema to a glob pattern via yaml.schemas:
yaml.schemas applies a schema to a file. In other words, the schema (placed on the left) is applied to the glob pattern on the right. Your schema can be local or online. Your schema path must be relative to the project root and not an absolute path to the schema.
For example: If you have project structure
myProject
> myYamlFile.yaml
you can do
yaml.schemas: {
"https://json.schemastore.org/composer": "/myYamlFile.yaml"
}and that will associate the composer schema with myYamlFile.yaml.
More examples of schema association:
Using yaml.schemas settings
Single root schema association:
When associating a schema it should follow the format below
yaml.schemas: {
"url": "globPattern",
"Kubernetes": "globPattern"
}e.g.
yaml.schemas: {
"https://json.schemastore.org/composer": "/*"
}e.g.
yaml.schemas: {
"kubernetes": "/myYamlFile.yaml"
}e.g.
yaml.schemas: {
"https://json.schemastore.org/composer": "/*",
"kubernetes": "/myYamlFile.yaml"
}On Windows with full path:
yaml.schemas: {
"C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\custom_schema.json": "someFilePattern.yaml",
}On Mac/Linux with full path:
yaml.schemas: {
"/home/user/custom_schema.json": "someFilePattern.yaml",
}Since 0.11.0 YAML Schemas can be used for validation:
"/home/user/custom_schema.yaml": "someFilePattern.yaml"A schema can be associated with multiple globs using a json array, e.g.
yaml.schemas: {
"kubernetes": ["filePattern1.yaml", "filePattern2.yaml"]
}e.g.
"yaml.schemas": {
"http://json.schemastore.org/composer": ["/*"],
"file:///home/johnd/some-schema.json": ["some.yaml"],
"../relative/path/schema.json": ["/config*.yaml"],
"/Users/johnd/some-schema.json": ["some.yaml"],
}e.g.
"yaml.schemas": {
"kubernetes": ["/myYamlFile.yaml"]
}e.g.
"yaml.schemas": {
"http://json.schemastore.org/composer": ["/*"],
"kubernetes": ["/myYamlFile.yaml"]
}Multi root schema association:
You can also use relative paths when working with multi root workspaces.
Suppose you have a multi root workspace that is laid out like:
My_first_project:
test.yaml
my_schema.json
My_second_project:
test2.yaml
my_schema2.jsonYou must then associate schemas relative to the root of the multi root workspace project.
yaml.schemas: {
"My_first_project/my_schema.json": "test.yaml",
"My_second_project/my_schema2.json": "test2.yaml"
}yaml.schemas allows you to specify json schemas that you want to validate against the yaml that you write. Kubernetes is an optional field. It does not require a url as the language server will provide that. You just need the keyword kubernetes and a glob pattern.
Using inlined schema
It is possible to specify a yaml schema using a modeline.
# yaml-language-server: $schema=<urlToTheSchema>Containerized Language Server
An image is provided for users who would like to use the YAML language server without having to install dependencies locally.
The image is located at quay.io/redhat-developer/yaml-language-server
To run the image you can use:
docker run -it quay.io/redhat-developer/yaml-language-server:latestLanguage Server Protocol version
yaml-language-server use `vscode-languageserver@7.0.0` which implements LSP 3.16
Clients
This repository only contains the server implementation. Here are some known clients consuming this server:
- Eclipse Che
- vscode-yaml for VSCode
- ide-yaml for Atom editor
- coc-yaml for coc.nvim
- Eclipse Wild Web Developer for Eclipse IDE
- lsp-mode for Emacs
- vim-lsp for Vim
- LSP-yaml for Sublime Text
- monaco-yaml for Monaco editor
Developer Support
Getting started
- Install prerequisites:
- latest Visual Studio Code
- Node.js v12.0.0 or higher
- Fork and clone this repository
- Install the dependencies
cd yaml-language-server $ yarn install - Build the language server
$ yarn run build - The new built server is now located in ./out/server/src/server.js.
node (Yaml Language Server Location)/out/server/src/server.js [--stdio]
Connecting to the language server via stdio
We have included the option to connect to the language server via stdio to help with intergrating the language server into different clients.
ESM and UMD Modules
Building the YAML Language Server produces CommonJS modules in the /out/server/src directory. In addition, a build also produces UMD (Universal Module Definition) modules and ES Modules (ESM) in the /lib directory. That gives you choices in using the YAML Language Server with different module loaders on the server side and in the browser with bundlers like webpack.
CI
We use a GitHub Action to publish each change in the main branch to npm registry with the next tag.
You may use the next version to adopt the latest changes into your project.