Ansible lint incompatible with yamllint max line-length

[ddeepwell]

Summary

ansible-lint --fix does not respect the maximum yaml line length in a repo where the line length is specified in a .yamllint file and multi-line strings use double quotes with a \ to wrap onto the next line.

When running ansible-lint --fix twice, the double quotes and line split are removed on the first pass, followed by a line-length error on the second pass.

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

lint

Ansible Version

$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.17.1]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/Users/me/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /private/tmp/ansible-test/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/me/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /private/tmp/ansible-test/.venv/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.11.9 (main, Apr  2 2024, 08:25:04) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] (/private/tmp/ansible-test/.venv/bin/python3.11)
  jinja version = 3.1.4
  libyaml = True

Configuration

# if using a version older than ansible-core 2.12 you should omit the '-t all'
$ ansible-config dump --only-changed -t all

OS / Environment

MacOS Sonoma 14.5

Steps to Reproduce

A minimum test repo contains two files:

1. .yamllint file:

---
rules:
  line-length:
    max: 88

and 2) a roles/arole/tasks/main.yml file:

---
- name: Download tarball
  ansible.builtin.get_url:
    url: "https://download.samba.org/pub/application/src/\
      application-application.version.tar.gz"
    dest: /tmp/app.tar.gz
    mode: "644"

Then run ansible-lint --fix twice.

Expected Results

I expected the multi-line string to be ignored since the fix would have broken the max line length limit.

Actual Results

ERROR    Rule specific fix not applied for: yaml/yaml roles/arole/tasks/main.yml:4
WARNING  Listing 1 violation(s) that are fatal
yaml[line-length]: Line too long (94 > 88 characters)
roles/arole/tasks/main.yml:4

Read documentation for instructions on how to ignore specific rule violations.

                Rule Violation Summary                
 count tag               profile rule associated tags 
     1 yaml[line-length] basic   formatting, yaml     

Failed: 1 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 4 files. Last profile that met the validation criteria was 'min'.

Code of Conduct

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[ddeepwell]

Whoops. Just noticed this would be better served in the https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint repo. I'm not sure how to move it there.

[ddeepwell]

The issue was duplicated at #4233.