YAML Language Server

Supports JSON Schema 7 and below.

Features

1. YAML validation:
   • Detects whether the entire file is valid yaml
2. 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
3. Auto completion:
   • Auto completes on all commands
   • Scalar nodes autocomplete to schema's defaults if they exist
4. Hover support:
   • Hovering over a node shows description if available
5. 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 quotes
• yaml.format.bracketSpacing: Print spaces between brackets in objects
• yaml.format.proseWrap: Always: wrap prose if it exeeds the print width, Never: never wrap the prose, Preserve: wrap prose as-is
• yaml.format.printWidth: Specify the line length that the printer will wrap on
• yaml.validate: Enable/disable validation feature
• yaml.hover: Enable/disable hover
• yaml.completion: Enable/disable autocompletion
• yaml.schemas: Helps you associate schemas with files in a glob pattern
• yaml.schemaStore.enable: When set to true the YAML language server will pull in all available schemas from JSON Schema Store
• 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).

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_2

Associating 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",
}

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.json

You 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>

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

Developer Support

Getting started

1. Install prerequisites:
   • latest Visual Studio Code
   • Node.js v6.0.0 or higher
2. Fork and clone this repository
3. Install the dependencies

   cd yaml-language-server
   $ yarn install

4. Build the language server

   $ yarn run build

5. The new built server is now location 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.