Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument

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Hi Team,

I am facing below error while doing ansible-lint, Any help would be appreciated

command: ansible-lint test.yaml

Overriding detected file kind ‘yaml’ with ‘playbook’ for given positional argument

Thanks,
Raj

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That isn’t an error. It’s just information: the yaml file is being treated as a playbook.

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It is a warning , can you please tell me how to avoid this?

WARNING Overriding detected file kind ‘yaml’ with ‘playbook’ for given positional argument: my_test.yml

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Not possible to omit generating those messages, although you could say

$ ansible-lint […] 2>/dev/null

If the positional argument were, say, a group_vars file and it was being linted as if it were a playbook, then “WARNING …” would clearly make sense. Or if you didn’t intend “my_test.yml” to be linted as a playbook, then you’d be glad for the warning.

As it is, since you can’t pick which lintable schema to use on a given file (at least not from --help’s output, or the missing man page), I’ll stand by my original statement: it’s an informational message that happens to begin with the text “WARNING”. That’s just my opinion, but ansible-lint is extremely opinionated after all.

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There’s a little more info on why this behaviour occurs here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/1398

The shell return value is accurate regardless:

[wmcdonald@fedora tests]$ ll
total 4
-rw-r–r–. 1 wmcdonald wmcdonald 143 Dec 22 12:55 test1.yaml
[wmcdonald@fedora tests]$ cat test1.yaml

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Thank you all for your response